Stallion Where’s That Tiger dies

Bloodstock consultant David Allan has reported the death of the Storm Cat stallion Where’s That Tiger (USA), at the weekend. Where’s That Tiger succumbed to heart failure – specifically a rupture of the aorta with full report on the post mortem yet to be completed.

The son of a full sister to a Kentucky Derby Winner, Where’s that Tiger (USA) ended his somewhat nomadic life at home at Evergreen Stud, Paarl to which he had returned only recently from the Drakenstein Veterinary Clinic after a colic episode.

Trained at Ballydoyle by Aidan O’Brien, “WTT” won his twoyear-old maiden at The Curragh on debut in 2005, following up with a Goodwood juvenile Listed fourth before being transferred to Mike de Kock in the ownership of Messrs Larry Nestadt and Bernard Kantor.

In Dubai he started superbly with a 0.5-length second in the UAE Guineas, a race that his trainer said he would have won but for having to run wide. Then he found himself in the care of Gai Waterhouse in Australia where he blitzed the field in a barrier trial of quality runners but was soon sent to stud in South Australia.

He sired some remarkable stats. Perhaps the most impressive – and relevant – is his R123 600 overall Average Earnings per Runner in South Africa. With 51% winners/runners worldwide – mostly in Australia and South Africa – WTT’s handful of imports to SA scored three stakes wins and two stakes places between them. –