BEAUMONT BRING SUPER SEVEN TO PREMIER SALE
Beaumont Stud has enjoyed a good run of success of late, with the farm’s recent winners include smart sprinter Meu Capitano, debut winner Jet Force and classy galloper Storm Brasco.
Famed for breeding dual South African Horse Of The Year Variety Club, Beaumont will be offering a seven strong string at the upcoming Premier Yearling Sale. This draft is comprised of yearlings sired by proven sires Legislate, Master Of My Fate, Pathfork, and What A Winter, as well as by exciting young sire Real Gone Kid.
Potential stars include:
Lot 30: c Master Of My Fate -Keyra
By the sire of G1 winners Atticus Finch, Sentbydestiny, Tempting Fate and Zarina, this colt is a full-brother to the smart Mastagambit and half-brother to promising filly Kyalami Girl.
This colt is out of the Western Winter mare Keyra, a dual winner who finished third in the Listed Sweet Chestnut Stakes. The well related Keyra is a half-sister to Gay Regina, the G2 winning dam of G3 Graham Beck Stakes winner Bulsara and granddam of G1 Vodacom Durban July winning champion Marinaresco. Inbred to Elliodor, this Master Of My Fate colt’s third dam Welsh Woman produced Celtic Grove, South Africa’s Horse Of The Year in 2000.
Lot 119: c Legislate -Always Dancing
Champion Legislate is a stallion with outstanding statistics. The Horse Of The Year is siring 12% stakes winners to foals, while Legislate is also sire of 62% winners to foals. Always Dancing is a winning three-parts sister to G2 Merchants/G2 Senor Santa Stakes winner Mardi Gras (also sired by Oratorio).
A half-sister to G3 Starling Stakes winner She’s A Giver, the dam of G2 TAB SA Nursery runner up Mount Pinatubo, Always Dancing is out of the G1 placed Var mare Valeta. The latter is a full-sister to Listed Bauhinia Handicap winner La Volta, the dam of G1 Computaform Sprint winning sire Master Archie.
Always Dancing’s granddam is G1 Majorca Stakes winner Sarabande, the dam of graded stakes winners Mardi Gras and Chesalon. The latter was sired by Fort Wood, the grandsire of Legislate.
Lot 198: c What A Winter -Princess Chloe
Four time G1 winner, and triple Equus Champion, What A Winter has sired nearly 30 black type winners, headed by champion sprinters Isivunguvungu and Russet Air, and fellow G1 winners Clouds Unfold, Humdinger, and Warrior’s Rest. The son of Western Winter was South Africa’s Leading Sire of 2YOs in 2019-2020 and Leading First Season Sire of 2016-2017.
Princess Chloe, dam of three winners including the useful Dubai Hills, is a twice winning daughter of champion sire and champion broodmare sire Captain Al, and she is out of multiple graded stakes winner Joshua’s Princess. The latter won all of the G2 South African Fillies Guineas, G2 Gold Circle Oaks and G2 Western Cape Filllies Championship, with Joshua’s Princess winning or placing in seven graded races.
Lot 254: f Pathfork -Dark Song
Irish Champion Pathfork is one of South Africa’s underrated stallions. The son of Distorted Humor has sired a host of top-class performers led by Equus Champion Royal Victory, and fellow G1 winners Main Defender, Mighty High and Pearl Of Asia.
From the family of Northern Guest and Redoute’s Choice, Pathfork is also responsible for such top-class graded stakes winners as Bingwa, Marchingontogether, My Friend Lee, Olivia’s Way, Red Chesnut Road, and Jet Start.
Dark Song is a winning daughter of the ill-fated Kingsbarns, whose progeny included champion Gabor, and the stakes placed Winter Heart.
This is one of the great families in the stud book, with its members including star sire half-brothers Invincible Spirit and Kodiac, French Oaks winner Rafha, Australian star Pride Of Dubai and South African champion Enaad. This is also the family of G3 Allied Steelrode Yellowwood Handicap winner Olivia’s Way, a daughter of Pathfork.
For more information on Beaumont’s Premier draft, interested parties can contact Anton Shepherd on 082 652 7005 or email him at beaumontstud@mweb.co.za
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For further information, contact
Vicky Minott vicky@caperacing.co.za
Janine van Blerk janine@caperacing.co.za
Phone: 021 700 1600
