AMBIANCE STUD OFFER A PREMIER DRAFT AT THE PREMIER SALE

Ambiance Stud is a farm which has long punched well above its weight. From breeding Met winner Alastor, to champion sprinters Al Nitak and Catalooche, Marianne Thomson has bred an impressive list of high-class racehorses. Ambiance’s latest equine star is Royal Victory. Winner of both 2023 G1 Betway Summer Cup and 2024 World Pool’s Champions Challenge, Royal Victory was crowned Equus Champion Middle Distance Horse Of 2023-2024. Among the numerous top-class performers beaten by Royal Victory are the champions Cousin Casey, Dave The King, Future Pearl, Safe Passage, and Winchester Mansion.

Ambiance Stud will be bringing a classy draft to this year’s Premier Yearling Sale, with potential standouts here including:

Lot 9: Free Roaming c Querari –Gypsy Rose
High-class sire Querari, whose progeny includes champion Rio Querari and fellow G1 winners Bavarian Beauty and Querari Falcon, has made a flying start with his two-year-olds this season.
Five of Querari’s first ten two-year-old runners this season have won, and they include the unbeaten pair Black Cheetah and Comic Relief. Querari, South Africa’s Leading Sire of 2YOs in 2018-2019, is also the sire of this season’s G3 SplashOut Victress Stakes/G3 Tsogo Sun Summer Fling Stakes winner Rainbow Lorikeet and G3 Kuda Matchem Stakes hero Questioning. Querari also has some very smart three-year-olds to his name this season, including Cosmic Speed, Choisaanada, and Un Bel Di.

Gypsy Rose, the dam of this colt, is a half-sister to three graded stakes winners notably Gypsy’s Warning, a dual G1 winner in South Africa and winner of the G1 Matriarch Stakes in the US. The brilliant Gypsy’s Warning won a trio of graded races in South Africa including the G1 SA Fillies Classic and G1 Thekwini Stakes, while her wins in the US included both the 2010 Matriarch Stakes (where she beat dual classic winner Special Duty) and the G3 Eatontown Stakes of the same year.

Gypsy’s Warning was one of three graded stakes winners produced by the top-class producer Gypsy Queen, a full-sister to G2 SA Oaks winners Noble Destiny and Royal Prophecy. The prolific Gypsy Queen produced six winners including G3 London News Stakes winning millionaire Romany Prince and G2 Camellia Stakes winner Surabi. A testimony to Gypsy Queen’s prowess as a producer is that her three graded stakes winners were sired by different stallions.

Another half-sister to Gypsy Rose, Gypsy’s Warning, Surabi and Romany Prince is Gypsy Madonna, dam of the Listed Champion Juvenile Cup winner Questor as well as this season’s very smart three-year-old My Best Shot.

Questor was sired by Querari, which makes this colt a three-parts brother to stakes winning two-year-old.

Lot 38: Quirky f Querari –Lovely Jubbly
This filly is a full-sister to Cockney Pride, winner of the 2019 G2 Zulu Kingdom Explorer Golden Slipper, and one of the best two-year-old fillies of her generation. Not only did Cockney Pride down the likes of Gabor, True To Life, Singforafa and Miss Florida in the Golden Slipper, but she also came out to finish third, against males, in the 2019 G2 TAB/Betting World Dingaans.
She is out of the Rakeen mare Lovely Jubly -the dam of six winners, by stallions ranging from Warm

White Night and Wylie Hall to Querari. Lovely Jubbly is also the dam of current smart performer Poets Warrior, winner of the 2024 Listed Allied Steelrode Java Stakes. To date, the progressive Poets Warrior has won six of 13 starts and has already banked R564 625 in prize money.

Lovely Jubbly was produced by the Harry Hotspur mare Musical Sound, who won three times from 1000m to 1400m. The well related Musical Sound produced four winners including the speedy Roses For Lizzy.

In turn, Musical Sound was one of a staggering 14 winners produced by the stakes winning Jamaico mare A Song Is Born. The latter produced a trio of stakes winners namely G1 Golden Horseshoe winner Ndabeni, Listed SA Derby Trial Futurity Handicap victor Singing Mountain and champion Whistling Dixie. A top-class racemare, Whistling Dixie won nine races with her wins including a triumph in the G3 Poinsettia Stakes. Also runner up in the G1 SA Fillies Sprint, Whistling Dixie went on to achieve great things at stud. Not only did she produce dual South African G1 winner Grand Emporium (winner of Dubai’s G2 Godolphin Mile), but Whistling Dixie’s three-time winning daughter Sing Dixe Sing is the dam of classy gelding Singapore Sling. The latter showed high-class form in South Africa, where he won the G2 Dingaans in 2016, before going on to campaign successfully in Hong Kong. (Singapore Sling’s triumphs in Hong Kong included the Hong Kong Classic Cup of 2018.

Lovely Jubbly was sired by Rakeen, who is also broodmare sire of the likes of Princess Victoria (Champion), Janoobi (Gauteng Guineas, Zabeel Mile), Gimme A Shot (Ipi Tombe Challenge), Far De Vie (South African Fillies Sprint), and Francia (Winter Oaks, Settlers Trophy).

Princess Calla, South African Horse Of The Year in 2022-2023, was produced by Princess Royal, whose dam was sired by Rakeen.

Lot 72: Moosalekka f Malmoos –Rustar Dhow
This filly hails from the first crop of her South African Triple Crown winning sire Malmoos. By champion sire Captain Al (also sire of star stallion One World), Malmoos was a top-class performer who won seven of 12 starts, with five of his wins coming in graded stakes races. Malmoos won seven of his first eight starts, and won the G2 Gauteng Guineas by a neck, the G1 SA Classic by two lengths and G1 SA Derby by five and a quarter lengths.

A winner from 1200m to 2450m, the blue blooded Malmoos is out of the Listed Spook Express Handicap winning mare Justthewayyouare, a Fort Wood half-sister to top-class stallion Master Of My Fate.

Unsurprisingly, Malmoos has already enjoyed sales ring success, with the Ridgemont resident having yearlings make up to R1 100 000 and looks to be an exciting prospect.
This filly is out of the speedy, four-time winning Rustar Dhow, a half-sister to Listed Milkwood Stakes runner up Maties Wildekate, with Rustar Dhow hailing from one of the best families in the modern stud.
Rustar Dhow is out of Arabian Court, whose sire Royal Academy is broodmare sire of (Royal Academy is also the sire of legendary South African broodmare Mystic Spring, the granddam of recent G1 World Sports Betting Cape Town Met winner Eight On Eighteen).

In turn, Arabian Court was produced by Romilly, whose breed shaping sire Machiavellian is damsire of such outstanding stallions such as Dark Angel and Shamardal.

A half-sister to two black type winners, including French G3 winner Lycitus, Romilly’s granddam is the hugely influential Northern Dancer mare Royal Statute. The latter is ancestress of a host of outstanding performers headed by the English classic winners Bosra Sham, Lammtarra and Snow Bride.

Lot 133: Japura f Querari -Boeing City
Champion Querari has sired more than 40 stakes winners thus far, with the son of Oasis Dream responsible for a further 42 stakes placed runners. The country’s Leading Sire of 2YOs for 2018-2019, Querari has sired the G1 winning fillies Bavarian Beauty and Querari Falcon, as well as the graded stakes winning females Rainbow Lorikeet, Cosmic Light, Gobsmacked, Maryah, Supreme Quest, Galla Vanting, Mill Queen, Homely Girl, Caya Coco, Cockney Pride and Marigold Hotel.

This filly was produced by the speedy Sail From Seattle mare Boeing City, a four-time winner over 1000m. In turn, Boeing City is a half-sister to three black horses led by the very quick Listed Gardenia Handicap/Listed Ruffian Stakes winner Rosinante as well as the dam of Listed Swallow Stakes winner Mambonick and classy campaigner Hat’s Pride. Boeing City is out of the four-time winning, up to 1200m, Model Man mare Hasta Aqui, a half-sister to G2 John Skeaping Trophy winner Grey Arrow and the dam of G2 SA Oaks winner Wind Chill.

Hasta Aqui’s dam Hasta Lueago, was a daughter of multiple champion sire Kenmare. The latter enjoyed notable success in South Africa, where, from a handful of runners, Kenmare was responsible for champion Joie De Grise, G1 Administrator’s Cup/TopSport Bloodline Derby winner Fire Arch, G3 King’s Cup winner Rainbow Ken, and G3 Gosforth Park F&M Stakes queen Grey Angel.

Hasta Lueago produced seven winners, led by the aforementioned Grey Arrow and Windin The Willows, dam of Wind Chill, and is also the ancestress of stakes winners Pan Amm, Le Var and Winter Passion. Further back, Hasta Lueago’s granddam is champion, and G1 Cheveley Park Stakes winner, Durtal, the dam of dual G1 Gold Cup winner Gildoran and third dam of G1 Irish 2000 Guineas winner Roderic O’Connor.

This filly is bred on the same Querari/Sail From Seattle cross as uber speedy galloper Cruise Control.

Lot 144: Bows And Bells c Hawwaam –Cockney Pride
Equus Champion, and five-time G1 winner, Hawwaam, is one of South Africa’s most exciting young stallions. By six-time South African champion sire Silvano, as is outstanding stallion Vercingetorix, Hawwaam won 10 of 13 starts, with his ten career wins including five G1 victories and eight graded stakes wins in total. A dual winner of the G1 Champions Challenge, Hawwaam also won the 2019 G1 SA Classic (by five and three quarter lengths), the same year’s G1 Daily News 2000, and the 2020 G1 H F Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes. The regally bred Hawwaam, who is out of the outstanding producer Halfway To Heaven, is a half-brother to Rainbow Bridge, Horse Of The Year in 2020-2021, and dual G1 winner Golden Ducat.

The champion, who never raced at two, has made a flying start with his first two runners being debut winner Read All About It and the placed Take It As Red, and there should be plenty more to come from Hawwaam as his progeny mature and go over ground.
His son Bows And Bells is out of the Ambiance bred G2 Zulu Kingdom Explorer Golden Slipper winner Cockney Pride, a half-sister to Poets Warrior, winner of the 2024 Listed Allied Steelrode Java Stakes and the stakes placed Another Idea.
Cockney Pride’s dam Lovely Jubbly is out of three three time winning Harry Hotspur mare Musical Sound, and this is the family of champions Ice Cube, and Whistling Dixie.

For more information on this draft, interested parties can speak to Dr Thomson on (082)557 1442 or email her on doctort@mweb.co.za

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Janine van Blerk janine@caperacing.co.za

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