Oz success could spill over into Yearling Sale
Ringsider
If the outstanding trade at the Inglis sale in Australia is any guide, vendors will be travelling to this week’s Select Yearling Sale at Emperors Palace with a spring in their step.
Cape Thoroughbred Sales are hosting the sale at the popular casino resort this Friday with the first of 159 lots coming under the hammer at 4pm.
The Inglis figures can only be described as sensational with a record average of A$355,875 and Arrowfield Stud grossing A$20million - the highest ever by a vendor at an Australian Yearling Sale.
Top price was A$2,5-million for a son of Redoubte’s Choice bought by Sheikh Mohammed bin Khalifa Al Maktoum.
While the top price at Emperors won’t get near that figure, it’s clear a number of top studs including Klawervlei, Summerhill and Highlands have kept aside some choice yearlings for this sale.
There should be big action at both the beginning and end of the sale.
The very first lot is offered by Klawervlei (as agent) as is a Captain Al colt out of the Grade 1 winning mare, Nania.
Three lots from the finish, Highlands, will be offering a fullbrother to Jackson who retired to stud with six wins including three Grade 1 successes. Presumably the reason he wasn’t on the CTS sale in Cape Town in January is that he’s a late foal being born in mid-November.
The early lots include Summerhill Stud’s Visionaire filly, Cosmology, who is a half-sister to Ipi Tombe Challenge winner, Intergalactic.
Champion trainer, Sean Tarry, is certain to run his expert eye over this lot.
Avontuur Farm have only a three-yearling draft but they include a Var colt who is a halfbrother to five-time winner and July-placed Chesalon and eighttime winner, La Volta.
Another yearling Tarry will be examining is the full-sister to Safe Harbour - consigned by Highlands (as agent) - and this Durban July entry won the Ready-To-Run Stakes at Kenilworth during the Cape season.
Captain Al has 12 yearlings on the sale and they include a fullsister to Equus champion All Is Secret and Grade 1 winner, The Secret Is Out.
Interestingly, All Is Secret is represented later on by her first foal which is a Dynasty colt consigned by Klawervlei (as agents).
Other Dynasty progeny include a colt out of July victor Dancer’s Daughter, a colt out of Grade 1 winner Give Me Five and a filly who is a half-sister to five-time winner, Sergeant Hardy.
Silvano has six yearlings coming under the hammers of John O’Kelly and Andrew Miller and the former will be selling a colt from Summerhill out of the fourtime winner, Elegant Blush.
Pomodoro carried the colours of Chris van Niekerk to a popular Durban July victory and Riverton Stud will be offering a colt who is a half-brother to Captain Of All, champion sprinter in 2014-15.