Decent sales offerings from smaller stud farms

Summerview Stud and Robertson farm The Alchemy will be offering a combined total of 12 lots at the 2017 National Yearling Sale which starts on Thursday.

Both Summerview and The Alchemy will be offering a number of two-year-olds by such well performed South African raced stars as Curved Ball, Elusive Fort, Irish Flame, Jackson and Pomodoro.

Summerview’s two lots on offer include a colt by Dingaans winner Curved Ball (Lot 28), whose granddam is a half-sister to Grade 1 SA Nursery hero Duc Du Orleans, and this is also the family of Grade 1 winner Lyrical Linda, dam of Jubilee Handicap winner Liege and Summerhill Stud’s new sire Lance.

The farm’s other lot on sale is a filly by the Dynasty sired Horse Of The Year Irish Flame. This filly (Lot 354) is a half-sister to two winners and is from the same family as dual Grade 1 winner Rabada and champion Jeppe’s Reef among others. (She traces back in female line to the mare Samovar – also ancestress of unbeaten champion and sire sensation Frankel).

The Alchemy’s 10 lots on offer include two daughters of Equus Champion and proven Grade 1 sire Elusive Fort – a ¾ sister to the dam of Grade 3 winner Fantastic Mr Fox and last season’s stakes winning two-year-old Fort Winter (Lot 41), and a half-sister to six time stakes winner Feel My Love (Lot 289).

The farm’s resident sire Gitano Hernando has a colt out of a winning Jet Master half-sister to promising three-year-old Let It Flow (Lot 382) here, while Lot 232 is a well related Irish Flame halfbrother to five winners including former Equus Champion and Grade 1 Gold Medallion winner Link Man.

Former Horse Of The Year Irish Flame is also the sire of a filly whose dam is a half-sister to Grade 3 Fillies Mile winner Hollywoodboulevard (Lot 432), while triple Grade 1 winner, and former two-year-old sale graduate, Jackson is responsible for Lot 244 –a filly whose three winning siblings include Grade 3 Godolphin Barb Stakes winner Woljayrine,

Mambo In Seattle, sire of recent Golden Slipper winner Desert Rhythm, is the sire of a colt whose dam was third in the Grade 2 SA Fillies Nursery (Lot 446) and this is the same family as champion Imperial Silver.

Versatile July-SA Derby winner Pomodoro, a son of seven times champion sire Jet Master, has a filly on offer whose Royal Academy sired dam is a granddaughter of US Group 1 winner and millionaire Sangue (Lot 321).