Wilgerbosdrift bring out big guns for Two Year Old Sale

Wilgerbosdrift have a superb draft on offer at the 2017 National Two Year Old Sale in Germiston which takes place today and tomorrow.

The farm’s 18-strong draft is highlighted by offspring of some of Wilgerbosdrift’s very best broodmares.

One such example is lot 423, a colt by bang in form sire Ideal World out of Tiger Ridge’s Listed Oaks Trial winning daughter Ilha Grande, making the colt on offer a half-brother to last season’s Grade 1 SA Fillies Classic winner Orchid Island. Ilha Grande, herself a halfsister to SA Oaks winner Ilha Bela, has already made sales ring history as the dam of the top lot sold at the 2016 National Yearling Sale.

Ideal World, sire of Equus Award Champion Stayer Hermoso Mundo and previous Equus Award winner Smart Call, is also the sire of a filly out of the Rich Man’s Gold mare Cosima Liszt, which makes this filly (Lot 327) a half-sister to Grade 1 Summer Cup winning millionaire Wagner and to exported Grade 1 Cape Guineas third Nassa.

Another well-bred Ideal World two-year-old in the draft is lot 421 – a colt whose dam is a winning half-sister to July winning Equus Champion Eyeofthetiger (Lot 421).

Former Grade 3 Magnolia Handicap winner Quickwood, a nominee at the recent Cape Breeders’ awards for Broodmare Of The Year, is the dam of lot 124, a bay half-sister to high-class fillies Nightingale, winner of the Grade 1 Majorca Stakes, and Grade 2 SA Oaks runner-up Oriental Oak.

This filly, a daughter of champion two-year-old sire Var, is out of an own sister to exported Grade 1 SA Guineas winner Heir Apparent, and both her sire and broodmare sire topped sires logs in 2016-2017.

World leading sire Pivotal was recently represented by his 26th Grade 1 winner and Grade 3 Poinsettia Stakes winning daughter Headstrong, has a colt on offer by newly crowned South African Champion Sire Silvano (Lot 426).

Proven producer Zanakiya, dam of Grade 1 SA Nursery runner up Ziparana and Grade 3 UAE 2000 Guineas second Zanzamar, has a Byword colt on sale here (Lot 251), while former French champion Byword is also responsible for a colt out of a winning daughter of world leading sire and French Derby winner Shamardal (Lot 310).

Triple Grade 1 winner Oratorio made a splendid start with his first locally born runners last season (which included Grade 1 Premiers Champion Stakes runner up Ancestry) and the son of Danehill has a bay daughter out of a winning half-sister to dual Guineas winning sire Noordhoek Flyer (Lot 452).

Other lots of note in this draft include a Byword filly out of Oaks winner Cyber Cento (Lot 335), an Elusive Fort filly from the family of Flobayou (Lot 197), a Mambo In Seattle half-brother to two stakes winners including Oaks winner Sweetie Pie (Lot 281), and a Jackson colt whose dam is half-sister to G1 Champions Cup winner African Appeal and to the dam of 2017 Grade 1 winner Brave Mary (Lot 326). -Bloodstock SA