Wilgerbosdrift Stud

Tomorrow’s World

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Asiatic Boy, who was Champion 3yo and Horse of the Year in Dubai, finished runner-up in the Dubai World Cup, and was Gr1 placed in Europe and USA. Teller Line is a daughter of Roar, whose female line goes to La Troienne. The dam of Teller is inbred to Buckpasser’s dam Busanda, who also goes to La Troienne. Given what we have seen in Tiger Ridge’s best runners, this is a riveting pedigree.

ies, damn lies, and statistics. Massage the numbers a little here and there, and you can prove anything.

Some statistics, however, cannot be manipulated.

Like this one.

Take the current log of South Africa’s leading stallions. Summarise the stud careers to date of the top-seven sires. Cream of the crop.

Then add Wilgerbosdrift’s career numbers (a whole decade) to compare.

Winners to runners Sire A 80% Sire B 75% Sire C 73% Sire D 72% Wilgerbosdrift 71% Sire E 70% Sire F 63% Sire G 62% (All 7 sires combined 72%) SW's to runners Sire A Sire B Sire C Wilgerbosdrift Sire D Sire E Sire F Sire G (All 7 sires combined

12% 10% 8% 8% 7% 6% 6% 6% 8%)

SW's to winners Sire A 15% Sire B 13% Sire C 11% Wilgerbosdrift 11% Sire D 11% Sire E 10% Sire F 8% Sire G 8% (All 7 sires combined 12%)

21 Yearlings at Nationals FORT WOOD Prenup (#94) comes from a French sire-producing family. His grandam is half sister to General (sire of US-sire of sires Lord At War), and also is half sister to the dam of French sire Marchand de Sable (sire of French Gr1 sprinter Marchand d’Or, Timeform 127).

Serious stuff. A half sister to the sires, Main Verte, came to South Africa. She’s grandam of Tiza, who won the Gr2 as a 2yo in SA and still races at the highest level in France at age ten. Main Verte also is grandam of the yearling on offer, who is half brother to a 4-time winner. The idea of a colt by sireof-sires Fort Wood from a French Gr1-sire producing family should set a few hearts aflutter. Prenup indeed.

Bluebell Glade (#364) is one of just two yearlings in the National Sale catalogue whose Now that we have your dams were Equus Champions. attention, let’s look to Among the wins scored by the filthe future. ly’s dam Bold Ellinore was the Gr1 (In case you wondered Garden Province Stakes, run at which sire leads the weight-for-age. She won seven above pack, career-wise, races in all, and was three times he’s oh-so cool).

Gr1 placed, from 1200m to a mile.

That the pedigree make-up of the mare wasn’t fluke is shown by her full brother Emperor Napoleon.

Not the luckiest of royals, he ran four Gr1 seconds (including two legs of the Triple Crown). Bold Ellinore’s yearling filly is her second foal.

RIGHT APPROACH Valmont (#388) should turn heads. His dam Clandestine, runner-up in he Natal Oaks, is a full sister to Horse of the Year and successful sire Dynasty. Both are bred at Wilgerbosdrift, as is a third full sibling, Gr1 Gold Cup runner-up (and Gr2 Gold Vase winner) Sequoia.

Niebelung (#395) is offered on account of the Wilgerbosdrift grooms, who will be rooting for a big price. The colt is half brother to highlass 2012 3yo Wagner and to two other winners, all of the foals to date for their dam Cosima Liszt.

The bloodlines of Horse of the Year & successful sire Dynasty, bred at Wilgerbosdrift, are well represented.

Dynasty’s classic placed full sister Clandestine has a yearling colt (#388) by Right Approach, while Trippi sired a filly from the family (#206).

Eden Estuary (#444) comes from a strong, emerging female line. The yearling filly is the first foal of her dam, who is full sister to Equus Champion 2yo & sire Kildonan, Grandam Cathay Firth is one of three influential mares bred by their dam Caprica Firth. The latter's three daughters are the dams of Kildonan, of SA Derby winner Kale, and of Wilgerbosdrift-bred Guineas winner Dunsinane.

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Marangrang (#412) is full brother to stakes placed multiple winner Pemberley. Their twotime winning dam is a daughter of Little Strike.

This is the potent Let Kiss female line, with Little Strike a full sister to highclass Leopard Strike and Life’s Power, who both stood as stallions, and to Little Kiss, ancestress of Gr1 performers. The yearling colt is the dam’s third foal.

Santa Clarita (#75) is the yearling full sister to 3-time winner Laurel Canyon and half sister to 2-time winner Palos Verdes. The winners are the only two runners to date of their dam Los Angeles, who is a Gr2 placed winner of three races. The yearling’s third dam is a half sister to Horse Chestnut.

Pearla Gibson (#310) will have strong appeal to foreign buyers. The yearling’s dam Western Revival is out of a Sadler’s Wells half sister to highly successful English sire Pivotal, while Pivotal’s half sister Resurgence produced Araafa, winner of Irish 2000 Guineas and Gr1 St James Palace Stakes. The yearling filly is half sister to 4-time winner September Moon, their dam’s only runner to date.

Free Parking (#266) boasts US Champion 3yo Filly Revidere as her third dam.

Revidere’s pedigree closely resembles the one of Seattle Slew, and the two appear close TRIPPI up together in the yearling filAbyssinia (#206) is yearling half ly’s grandam Slew’s Review. sister to 2yo winner Balkis, their The latter is dam of Gr3 winner dam Sheba a half sister to Gr1 Slinky Malinky, who is half sisplaced The Daydream and Gr3 ter to Tax Return, dam of the placed Rose Lipped Maiden. Sheba’s yearling filly. Slinky Malinky Silver Mist - 2nd to Pocket Power in the Gr1 Queen's Plate, dam is half sister to Horse of the Year got Gr3 placed Miss Gold Dighas a full brother (#133) and sire Dynasty. ger, by Rich Man’s Gold, who also is sire of Tax Return, making Miss Gold Digger and Tax Return WESTERN WINTER 3-part related. The yearling is her dam’s second foal.

Evening Storm (#133) is the yearling full brother to Silver

TIGER RIDGE Capricorn Ridge (#197) has pedigree that requires some thinking. The yearling colt’s dam Seeking The Wind is a Gr3 placed 5time winner by Jallad. She is half sister to Gr1 placed 5-time winner Divine Nymph, by Al Mufti (who is half brother to the dam of Tiger Ridge). Divine Nymph is dam of Gr1 SA Classic winner Divine Jury, who is by Jallad. Put all this together and the yearling colt becomes a very close relative to Classic winner Divine Jury (who, by the way, is half brother to highclass 3yo Divine Jet). The dam Seeking The Wind has five winners to date, including Gr3 placed 5-time winner Martial Eagle, Aircon, and a full brother to the yearling colt.

Siddhartha (#332) belongs in the same camp, as his dam is a 3-time winning half sister to Martial Eagle, and out of Seeking The Wind. The yearling is the dam’s second foal.

Tiger Tops (#261) is half brother to four winners from different sires, notably Gr3 placed 4-time winner ArOnly two yearlings in the catalogue have boreal. The yearling’s dam is half sister to Gr2 stayer dams who are Equus Champions.

Legal Mission, with the next dam half sister to ChamBold Ellinore's filly is one (#364) Querida (#109) is a yearling half sister to five pion filly Enchanted Garden, to stakes winner Capwinners. Their dam My Squeeza won the ture The Wind and Circle Of Gold (dam of Gr3 winner Rich Strike).

Woolavington Stakes, and was beaten a short head in the Gr1 GarCapture The Wind and Circle Of Gold are by Al Mufti, who is half den Province Stakes (by Champion filly Donatella). The mare’s brother to the dam of Tiger Ridge. winners include Gr3 placed Calpurnia, who won six races. The Moneygram (#267) has one of the briefest pages in the cataoutstanding performer in this pedigree is My Squeeza’s grandam logue, but possibly one of the best pedigrees. The yearling’s Bold Cherry, whose three Gr1 wins included the Garden Province dam Teller Line won a dozen races in the USA. She’s half sister to Stakes. Bold Cherry was voted Champion Older Mare.

Mist, Gr3 winner of nine races, runner-up in the Gr1 Queen’s Plate.

He subsequently won a Gr3 in Dubai. A half brother to the pair is Gr2 winning sprinter Shades of Indigo. Their 3-time winning dam Palace Bride is an Australian-bred daughter of English Gr3 placed stakes winner Bridesmaid, whose fourth dam is half sister to influential sire Hyperion.

NOT FOR SALE Belong To You (#359) is Argentine bred, and half sister to 3 winners in SA and USA, all with black type. Locally, the family flag is kept flying by Ugly Betty, three times stakes placed to date. Two other half sisters have been stakes placed in the USA, where their dam Betty Van won three races and was Gr2 placed.

ORPEN Rice (#216) is the second foal of her unraced dam, who was bred in the USA and at stud in Argentina. The grandam, an English stakes winner, is half sister to Gr1 winners and successful sires Desert Wine and Menifee (both runners-up in two legs of the US Triple Crown), as well as three-part sister to Champion European 2yo and sire Fasliyev. Their dam Anne Campbell was voted Champion Broodmare in the USA. Her daughters and granddaughters have followed her example, so the yearling filly on offer must have paddock value if nothing else.

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Decade of Champions

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A Decade of Black Type

he year is 2002. The first crops bred at Wilgerbosdrift hit the tracks running. First winners of the year are Dunmore West (multiple stakes winner later in her career) and The Daydream (placed in the Fillies Guineas a year later). Then, in June 2002, appears a bay colt called Dynasty. Starting at odds of 1/3 in open company over a mile at Greyville, the 2yo canters home, leaving fourteen older opponents struggling in his wake.

It is the shape of things to come, for Dynasty as much as for the fledgling Wilgerbosdrift stud.

Big runners bred at Wilgerbosdrift

Making Headlines

Ground Rules

The Wilgerbosdrift-bred Gr1 winners

“Geologically speaking, the area is the horse breeders powerhouse.” So says Tim Miller, best known as owner of Horse of the Year Prince Florimund, from whom he bred the dam of another Horse of the Year, Pocket Power. The MIT-educated geologist made a name mining rubies in Kenya. Thoroughbred breeding is his passion. “In a nutshell it’s like this. Very long ago, the West Coast area consisted of small islands. Those had lots of birds, which deposited droppings – guana. Phosphates. Add to that deposits of calcium carbonate, from seashells, and you have a unique combination. For breeding strong, healthy horses there isn’t anything to beat it.”

Grade & Upgrade Looking back over the decade since Dynasty’s first win, the proof is in the pudding. The stud’s big-race winners include Equus Champion 2yo filly Asylum Seeker and five Gr1 winning colts – Equus Champion Elusive Fort, Equus Champion 2yo Kildonan, Cape Guineas and SA Guineas winner Noordhoek Flyer, SA Guineas winner Heir Apparent (who sadly died after his 3yo career), and Horse of the Year Dynasty, the trail blazer.

All four of the surviving colts are now at stud as stallions.

ASYLUM SEEKER – 50k National 2yo Sale yearling; earned 550k ; Equus Champion 2yo filly DYNASTY – 475k National Sale yearling; earned 2.1m; Equus Champion 3yo, Horse of the Year; sire of Horse of the Year Irish Flame in his first crop, and Gr1 Cape Derby winner Jackson in his third crop ELUSIVE FORT – 750k National Sale yearling; earned 2m; Equus Champion Male Stayer, triple Gr1 winner; raced in USA (G3 placed); to stud in 2011 HEIR APPARENT – 70k National Sale yearling; earned 535k; Gr1 SA Guineas winner (died early at 4) KILDONAN – 360k National Sale yearling; earned 875k; Equus Champion 2yo colt; Gr1 winner at 3; to stud in 2009 NOORDHOEK FLYER – 2.5m National Sale yearling; earned 1.2m; Gr1 Cape Guineas winner, Gr1 Cape Derby runner-up; to stud in 2011.

All In The Family

More to the point, every one of the Gr1 heroes changed hands in the sales-ring!

The Wilgerbosdrift team – where the real work is done

UPGRADING THE BAND: English-bred Gr1 placed Gr3 winner WELWITSCHIA is a daughter of Oasis Dream The key to continued successes is upgrading the mare band.

New blood for the Wilgerbosdrift paddocks includes Irish-bred Danehill Dancer daughter Berry Blaze (MR 104), English-bred Oasis Dream mare Welwitschia (MR 105), Equus Champion Mother Russia (MR 111), Jallad mare Zirconeum (MR 107), Irish-bred Montjeu mare Gorongosa (MR 91), UK-bred Shamardal filly Centimes (odds-on winner of her only start last month).

Quality counts.

The Wilgerbosdrift team. Proud owners of the Chilean-bred mare Cosima Liszt, given to them by way of a Wilgerbosdrift incentive plan.

The team has a magnificent Right Approach yearling colt out of Cosima Liszt at Nationals later this month. He’s half brother to three winners from three foals, including stakes winning 3yo Wagner, third in the SA Derby Trial last time out. Expectations are high!

Stallion Station Tiger Ridge and Right Approach are the residing stallions at Wilgerbosdrift. Both started their stud careers in 2006, and to date have three crops to race on the track.

TIGER RIDGE is sire of Graded Stakes winners in the USA and South Africa

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RIGHT APPROACH is sire of Graded Stakes winners, and has a Million-Rand earner

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The Million Rand Coup

IGHT APPROACH. Bred by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, the magnificent bay colt raced in the royal colours.

Following two promising performances as a 2yo, he was heavily supported for the Epsom Derby to give the monarch a first winner of that big race in her Golden Jubilee year. A hairline fracture of vertebrae put paid to those hopes.

As a result he missed most of his 3yo season, including the Derby, but made up for lost time subsequently. Here’s the story of Right Approach.

Born in September 2008, from the second crop of Right Approach, Red Barrel was offered as a foal in May 2009 at Marianne Thomson’s dispersal sale. He changed hands at R85k, one of forty foals sold at the sale.

More than a year later, Red Barrel went again through the ring at the Ready To Run Sale. This auction was linked to a R2 million race to be held a year later, exclusively for Ready To Run graduates.

Red Barrel fetched R350k, twice the sale average. The now 2yo joined the stable of Mike de Kock, to race in the colours of Markus Jooste. A plan was hatched, the aim the big prize of the next year.

Following careful preparation, Red Barrel made his racecourse debut only at 3, over 1200m at the Vaal, in October. Slow away in a field of sixteen, he showed his ability to win nicely and secure his place in the Ready To Run Cup a month later. He started favourite, and won.

In two starts, the Right Approach colt had earned a shade over R1 million.

Mission accomplished.

Take It From Timeform “When the champion jockey says a twice-raced two-year-old could be the best he has ever sat on, the racing world has to sit up and take notice, and, as a result of the publicity given to Her Majesty The Queen's Right Approach, his name will surely be racing silks are the same as those of King George IV appearing in plenty of horses-to-follow lists (…). There’s no doubt that he has enorand King Edward VII. mous potential and he could well come close to living up to Kieren Fallon’s expectations; in Sir Michael Stoute, Right Approach has a trainer who is sure to get the best out of him.”

So wrote Timeform in their 2001 Racehorses annual.

Right Approach’ 3yo campaign was an anti-climax, especially as he’d been heavily backed for the Derby prior to making his 3yo debut.

He ran twice, in the Classic Trial in April and Dante Stakes in May, making no show in the latter. He reportedly fractured a vertebrae, and was given the rest of the year off.

As 4yo Right Approach won the Listed Royal Windsor Stakes on seasonal debut, then ran second in the Queen Anne Stakes at Royal Ascot, earning a Timeform rating of 117. He lost form subsequently, and his no doubt disheartened connections sold him at the Tattersalls October Sale for a rather modest 65.000 guineas.

From Queen To King Right Approach proved an inspired buy for his new connections, who put him in the care of Mike de Kock, the King of Dubai racing.

Less than four months after he’d changed hands, Right Approach won a Listed race on his Dubai debut. A month later, on World Cup night, he dead-heated in the Gr1 Dubai Duty Free over 1800m at Nad Al Sheba, then finished a 2-length fifth in the QEII Cup in Hong Kong in April. That was that for the season.

Right Approach reappeared in Dubai in March of the following year, recording a career-best rating of 121 when narrowly beaten in the Gr2 Jebel Hatta after being slow away. He concluded his racing career with a third in the Gr1 Dubai Duty Free and fourth in the Gr1 Singapore Cup. Right Approach had earned his purchase price several times over in just six starts, racing consistently well, and to his best form.

It was time for the next move.

RIGHT APPROACH

(Machiavellian - Abbey Strand by Shadeed)

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Wild Daisy Young Anna Czech Red Dor Red Kaschka Emerald Beauty Faerie Gold Valid Appeal Cape Lilac Charcoal Joie De Soleil Limerick Mansfield Park Desert Serenade Single Rose Kentucky Lass Kentucky Power Dream Goddess Lady Maroof Squeaky Clean Fortune Cookie Chanson Cathay Firth English Willow Saudies Hockey Corner Best Chris Los Angeles

(’08c) Big Boy Wild (’07f) Polish Lady (’07c) Approachable (’07f) Lizzie Arden (’08c) Red Barrel (’08c) Right Beauty (’08c) Gold Flight (’08f) Keigai (’07f) Goose Valley (’08f) Winged Foot (’07f) Approach Me (’07c) Dunraven (’08c) Just Knock (’08f) Oh So Swell (’08f) Silent Approach (’08f) Pine Valley (’07c) Boston Legal (’08c) Bearing Gifts (’08f) Genteel Approach (’07c) Green Keeper (’08f) Lucky Chiang (’07f) Jenny Jones (’08f) Brora (’07c) Jack Hobbs (’07f) Desert Breeze (’08c) Whiteline Fever (’07c) Cypress Point (’08c) Palos Verdes

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Greenhill God Jungle Cove Pepenador Jallad Red Ryder Green Lightning Dragon Prince Northern Guest Home Guard Waterville Lake Kenmare Kenmare Northfields Welsh Pageant Royal Prerogative Sweet Song Piaffer Gatecrasher McGinty Golden Thatch Fort Wood Enchantment Pentland Firth Mecca Road Ringaro Elliodor Ghadeer Northfields

A People’s Stallion Right Approach was presented to the world of South African breeders in 2006, to start his stud career at Wilgerbosdrift.

With his utterly classic good looks, a true sire’s pedigree, and his televised achievements abroad still fresh in the collective minds, he predictably proved popular. Standing at an advertised fee of R20.000, Right Approach sired over fifty foals in each of his first three crops. They were registered to over 50 different breeders, out of mares by over 80 different sires. Genetic variety aplenty.

Best Runners The list of best runners for Right Approach, when measured by Merit Rating, is headed appropriately by colts who were the sire’s highest priced lots when sold.

If the measure of a sire Gr2 Dingaans runner-up Whiteline Fever (MR 105) is what he can accomplish when compared to other foals from the same mares, then all is Right.

Sale Perspective The first crop of Right Approach hit the auction market in 2009. Buyers and sellers alike were ecstatic.

The National Sale saw a R700k colt, the Vintage Sale a R300k filly. The National 2yo Sale had a R200k colt, and even in Natal the R100k barrier was broken, with a filly. All this achieved on a service fee of just R20k.

The frenzy continued in 2010. Daytona Stud made headlines with a R700k colt at the regional Cape Sale (almost nine times the sale’s average!). The National Sale followed with R600k and R550k colts.

Heads could again be held high in 2011, when a National sale colt achieved R575k, while Natal surprised with a R310k colt (more than six times the sale’s average).

If all that was amazing, there was one foal who took the cake. Red Red Barrel - R1 million in 2 starts.

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The R700k Daytona-bred Whiteline Fever, from Right Approach’ second crop, is rated MR 105. He’s the best by far of his dam’s four runners to date.

The R200k (first crop) National 2yo Sale topper Approachable is second, with MR 103. He’s the best by far of his dam’s five runners to date.

Third place goes to a R380k National Sale colt from the third crop, Right Beauty, rated MR 95 as a 2yo in 2011. He’s the second foal of his dam and only runner to date.

Stakes placed Dunraven is the best of his dam’s three runners to date.

Gr3 placed Jack Hobbs is the best of his dam’s two winning runners to date, while Gr3 placed Green Keeper is on a par with half brother World Focus, from eight runners for their dam.

Gr3 runner-up Lizzie Arden is the first foal of her dam Red Dor (the mare’s third foal Safe House, also by Right Approach, sold for R575.000 in 2011).

The list goes on.

sales price index sale price 125,000 200,000

0.48 2.35

350,000 380,000 50,000

1.92 1.02 1.16

300,000

3.62

350,000 65,000 10,000 270,000 175,000

1.00 1.51 0.26 1.01 0.65

140,000 65,000

1.52 1.46

170,000

2.05

200,000

0.57

700,000 700,000 550,000

8.82 2.00 1.47

6 Yearlings at Nationals

Right Approach has six yearlings at the National Sale, four colts and two fillies.

They include the second foal of Champion Dynasty’s full sister Clandestine (runner-up in the Gr2 Natal Oaks), and the first foal of Champion Kildonan’s winning full sister Firth Of Tay.

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Totally Tiger T

At the sales, buyer confidence persists

IGER RIDGE. Imposing son of worldclass sire-of-sires Storm Cat. Half brother to US Horse of the Year, Champion sire and sireof-sires A.P. Indy. Half brother to US Classic winner and G1 producing sire Summer Squall. Their dam US Champion Broodmare, and half sister to sire Al Mufti.

It gets better. Here’s the Tiger’s tale.

Top prices • Median of top-10 • Median of all - split by sex, for years 2009-2011

Pedigrees of Best Progeny

Put into training as a 2yo, Tiger Ridge injured a cannonbone, serious enough to curtail his racing career. So he was packed off to stud, to follow in the footsteps of his older and successful G1 producing half brothers A.P. Indy, Summer Squal and Honor Grades.

Tiger Ridge’s new home was in Florida, traditionally the try-out ground for wellbred stallions without G1 racing careers. He didn’t let the grass grow under his feet, with G2 and stakes winners in his first crops. The title of Florida’s Champion second crop sire came his way. The market took note, Tiger Ridge yearlings selling for up to $650.000. His abilities as a sire now exposed, a successful bid of a cool n-million dollars was made to bring him to South Africa. Soon syndicated, the ten-year-old Tiger Ridge stood ready to take up duties at Wilgerbosdrift in 2006, at a fee of R80.000.

Kavanagh (07c – MR 107) This Gr1 performer is by a Storm Cat half brother to champion sire A.P. Indy, out of a full sister to Mutakddim (sire of a dozen Gr1 winners), the female line tracing to La Troienne (with six crosses of the great mare to boot). “A stallion’s pedigree if ever I saw one”, says pedigree analyst Karel Miedema. “Pity he had to Tiger Ridge became Chambe gelded. Hopefully his 2012 pion First-season sire in yearling full brother Foyle can 2010, and finished 2nd on fill a few books in time to the overall list for Sires of come”.

2yo’s (with 28 2yo runners), No further questions, M’lord!

– KAVANAGH wins SA Nursery Follow The Piper a fraction behind Captain Al on debut, from another TIGER RIDGE son, THE RAJ (07f – MR 104). Her dam (whose 2yo Beautiful Piper is by Lustra, whose dam is by earnings came from a much higher 49 runners).

Buckpasser, and comes from the La Troienne Leader of the generation was Kavanagh, who won the female line.

Remember the strong Buckpasser SA Nursery on his debut (from The Raj, also by Tiger affinity shown by Al Mufti, who is half brother Ridge), and was Gr1 runner-up at his only other two to Tiger Ridge’ dam.

Buckpasser is from the starts as a 2yo. Another to make his feature mark as a La Troienne female line.

2yo was stakes winner Burmese Cat. The word was out, and yearling buyers took the bit Burmese Cat (07c – MR 101). His dam Tiger Ridge was a between the teeth, bidding R1.3 million for Tiger Streak To Fame is by Complete Warrior, who is from the La Troienne female line. very smart buy, and Ridge’s second crop sale-topper. Another dozen of his Complete Warrior is also the sire of the dam of Al Mufti’s Gr1 producing son may have been cheap Tiger Ridge’ 2yo son STRIKE THE TIGER is the first-ever yearlings made R300.000 and more.

Captain Al. at the price. His US-trained winner on the flat in Britain The Raj (07c - MR 95). His dam Little Indian is by Al Mufti, making young, unraced US– Windsor Castle S, Royal Ascot, June '09 Black Type winners colts fillies The Raj inbred 3x3 to Buckpasser mare Lassie Dear (dam of Al Mufti, progeny at the time of Western Winter 16% 9% and grandam of Tiger Ridge) his sale continued to grab attention. No one more so Fort Wood 11% 9% Dynasty 10% 5% than 2yo Strike The Tiger, whose enterprising American Tiger Ridge has two full South African Bashert (USA) (03c). One of the best colts in Tiger Ridge’s first Jet Master 9% 8% trainer Wesley Ward raided Royal Ascot in 2009 – and crops to race (his third crop are 2yo’s).

US crop, rated 100+. His dam Caught Ree is by Eastern Echo, who is Silvano 8% 6% won!

He provides class, as his percentage of Tiger Ridge 7% 4%

by Damascus and comes from the La Troienne female line (he bears Var 6% 5% Black Type earners shows. With 17% for close resemblance to dam of Complete Warrior). The second damsire Captain Al 5% 9% colts and 11% for fillies he’s well up to of Caught Ree is a grandson of the mare Uvira, the latter also female line international standard. And when judged ancestress of Tiger Ridge. against the best on Black Type winners, his percentages are equally Leah’s Secret (USA) (03f). Triple G2 winner in the US, winning stakes The Royal Ascot win lit the fire under the hopes of the revealing. Tiger Ridge’ strong suit is sprinter/miler speed, but given races as 3,4, 5 and 6yo! Her dam is by Capote, son of Seattle Slew (who has buyers of Tiger Ridge’s first South African crop. His a mare with more stamina he can get certainly them to stay, as SA double La Troienne). Key in bottom female line is My Babu-mare Trustworthy, yearlings had sold very well at the National Sale, eleven Oaks placed Ilha Grande shows. In the US, he still had 5yo & 6yo who is close kin to Missy Baba in Tiger Ridge’s female line. Pedigree of Leah’s going for more than R300.000, with a top price of SW's in 2011. dam is very close to dam of SA sire Slew The Red. R900.000. Second highest price for the first crop progBelow is a summarised listing for the above-average runners from eny would come at the 2yo sale, with a bid of R550.000. his first two SA crops.

Tiger Ridge was on his way.

Kavanagh Makes It Legal

If Only They’d Known…

Taking Stock

First Blood at the Sales

TIGER RIDGE dam sire

Al Mufti Al Mufti Candy Stripes College Chapel Complete Warrior Counter Action Dehere Elliodor Fort Wood Fort Wood Fort Wood Hard Up Jallad Jallad Kentucky Slew Lustra Model Man National Assembly National Assembly Northern Guest Plugged Nickle Rakeen Rich Man’s Gold Rory’s Jester Roy Seeking The Gold Shaamit Shoe Danzig Silvino Silvino Slew O’Gold Sportsworld Sportsworld Sportsworld Sportsworld Sportsworld Unbridled West Man West Man Western Winter Western Winter Western Winter

dam

earnings index

(Storm Cat - Weekend Surprise by Secretariat)

Little Indian Sea Patrol Ilha Da Vitoria Ozzy Prayer Streak To Fame Counterpoise Annamay Little Extra Aeolus Ebony Castle Water Berry Upwardly Mobile Princess Faberge Seeking The Wind Kentucky Lass Beautiful Piper Fair Enough Just Assembly Just Assembly London Niece Rawl Plug Pewter Cosima Liszt Rose Gypsy Velvet Green Quaestio Derby Strike Red Buttons Danara Sylvan Crest Slew’s Review Gay Regina Mischief Maiden Mushtaq’s Maiden Sparkling Nymph Sporting Model Nunbridled Los Angeles The Eden Project Alteza Queen’s Service Weston Fair

horse

(’07c) The Raj (’07c) Boss Cat (’07f) ILHA GRANDE (’08f) On A Wing (’07c) BURMESE CAT (’09f) Counter Ridge (’08f) Anna The Tiger (’08f) Small Miracle (’07c) Ridge Too Far (’07f) Platinum Cat (’08c) Tiger’s Retreat (’07c) Up And Running (’08c) Royal Ridge (’07c) Slipstream (’07f) Coral Garden (’07f) FOLLOW THE PIPER (’08c) Tiger Right (’07c) Just Tiger (’08f) Tiger Flo (’07f) Susanna (’07f) Raw Deal (’08c) Kantaka (’08c) WAGNER (’07f) Grey Rose (’09f) Fortuny (’07c) KAVANAGH (’07c) Pemberley (’08c) Final Button (’07f) Kwacha (’08f) Allegheny (’07c) Bottom Dollar (’07f) Welsh Kitten (’07f) Mombasa (’08f) Tiger’s Gold (’08f) Shedrivesmecrazy (’07f) Sportsgirl (’07f) Skinny Dip (’07f) Laurel Canyon (’07f) Tiger Strike (’08c) Tiger Tales (’08f) Georgia On My Mind (’08f) Amur Affair

2nd dam sire

Savonarola Harry Hotspur Equalize Scottish Rifle Northern Drive Harry Hotspur Luskin Star Lustra Royal Prerogative Elliodor Gay Fandango Proclaim Russian Fox Northfields Sweet Song Elevation Northern Guest Elliodor Elliodor Bush Telegraph Col Pickering Instrument Landing Forlitano Zabeel Ghadeer Seattle Slew Elliodor Instrument Landing Lord Henham Free Ride Reviewer Elliodor Crystal Glitters Elliodor Our Casey’s Boy Plum Bold Fit to Fight Northfields Trocadero Del Sarto Caerdeon Priceless Asset

rn

13 18 11 11 14 1 3 11 12 16 4 10 9 10 2 24 2 11 6 15 5 2 6 25 2 18 20 9 22 1 9 16 14 7 10 14 13 23 6 5 7 9

wn SW SP 2 2 3 2 3 1 1 1 4 3

1 3 1 1 7 1 1 1 5 1 1 2 3 6 2 3 3 2 2 4 1 1 2 2 3 1 1 1 2

2

1

1

2

1 1 1

1 3

5 1 1 1

1

2

stakes

245,025 218,400 266,200 115,495 312,575 39,040 43,800 97,350 163,210 157,197 34,500 76,925 246,075 70,500 36,600 499,325 36,600 85,245 46,875 193,752 39,375 33,750 145,550 155,755 26,250 1,431,875 172,550 165,080 188,525 7,000 93,470 104,300 228,523 42,775 56,290 100,525 159,850 183,675 57,750 107,750 56,075 163,000

2.74 1.76 3.91 1.90 3.24 7.96 2.64 1.60 1.97 1.59 1.34 1.12 4.25 1.02 2.96 3.36 2.85 1.13 1.41 2.09 1.27 2.63 3.77 1.01 2.67 11.55 1.25 2.85 1.38 1.27 1.51 1.05 2.64 1.11 1.02 1.16 1.99 1.29 1.56 3.35 1.45 3.28

official Merit Rating 95 84 90 80 101 0 76 87 88 86 0 86 87 74 0 104 75 82 65 76 69 77 89 82 0 107 78 95 84 0 77 77 93 75 84 77 77 86 74 81 73 94

distance

1200-1600 1000-1200 1300-2000 1200 1000-1600 1000 1200 1000 1200-1600 1400-2000 1000 1160-1600 1400 1200 1200-1600 1400 1400 1200 1400-1800 1400 1400 1400 1200-1400 1160-1450 1200 1000-1600 1000-1200 1400-1600 1000-1200 1400-1600 1400 1000 1200 1450-1600 1000-1200 1000 1160 1400 1200-1600

Sporting Post ratings by distance group

sales price index sale price

90/97/84/88/400,000 79/76/-/-/120,000 85/73/80/90/84 84/55/-/-/95/98/87/88/200,000 94/-/-/-/100,000 67/-/-/-/81/71/-/-/220,000 86/83/-/-/250,000 -/86/82/74/125,000 72/59/-/-/550,000 80/82/-/-/900,000 85/95/-/-/1,300,000 63/76/-/-/300,000 76/-/-/-/450,000 98/94/-/-/280,000 -/70/-/76/70/76/-/-/70/58/-/-/420,000 68/76/78/-/-/67/-/-/58/75/-/-/300,000 50/88/91/-/200,000 73/77/-/-/310,000 73/73/-/-/97/110/-/-/80/80/70/48/450,000 90/88/-/-/300,000 80/76/-/-/150,000 62/-/-/-/350,000 69/78/-/-/74/52/-/-/25/88/-/-/70/69/-/-/140,000 76/72/-/-/71/62/49/-/42/76/71/-/81/25/-/-/95,000 69/-/-/-/250,000 83/-/-/-/260,000 82/75/-/-/260,000 87/90/78/-/700,000

1.14 1.29 0.57 0.45 3.55 2.89 0.48 1.47 2.57 3.48 0.86 1.73 3.84 1.57 3.21 0.54 1.19 1.29 0.80 0.58 1.31

21Yearlings at Nationals

Twenty-one Tiger Ridge yearlings, thirteen of them colts, will be at the National Sale. Three colts are out of Al Mufti mares.

In terms of pedigree, there’s an interesting colt out of American mare Teller Line (half sister to Dubai champion Asiatic Boy). Teller Line is by Roar, who is half brother to Eastern Echo (who we know as damsire of Tiger Ridge’s USson Bashert). Roar’s female line goes to La Troienne, and below that the dam of Teller Line is inbred 3x4 to Buckpasser’s dam Busanda. All the aces!

Amongst the fillies is a full sister to stakes winning Gr2 SA Oaks runner-up Ilha Grande, out of Horse of the Year Ilha da Vitoria (also dam of 2012 Fillies Guineas runner-up Ilha Bela).

1.77

1.30 0.96 0.70 0.97 2.62

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