CHAMPION SIRE TO SHINE FOR VARSFONTEIN STUD AT PREMIER SALE

Varsfontein Stud is home to an extremely attractive band of stallions. The farm, who will stand Gimmethegreenlight’s champion son Green With Envy in 2025, is currently home to all of Erik The Red, Master Of My Fate, Sandringham Summit, and the latter’s outstanding sire Gimmethegreenlight.

Gimmethegreenlight, who has been Champion Sire in South Africa on three occasions, is having another fine season in 2024-2025. At the time of writing, Gimmethegreenlight had been responsible for nine black type winners this season, with his progeny having claimed 11 Graded or Listed races in 2024-2025. Among his flagbearers this season are the graded stakes winners Gimmie’s Countess, Gimme A Prince, and Gimmefabulous, while his daughters Give Me Everything, Kinda Wonderful, and Goodnessgraciousme finished 1-2-3 in the recent Listed Schweppes Cape Fillies Classic.

Varsfontein Stud will be offering six (three as Agent) yearlings by their wonderful stallion at the Premier Yearling Sale, and these yearlings look bound to find favour with buyers!

Lot 50: Running Shoes c Gimmethegreenlight -Moggytwoshoes
A half-brother to G2 World Sports Betting Guineas winner Zapatillas, this colt is a full-brother to G2 Jonsson Workwear Dingaans runner up Shoemaker and the useful Boogie Shoes.
Moggytwoshoes was a smart performer, who won five and ran third in the Listed Syringa Handicap, and this is the family of the now Varsfontein based champion Sandringham Summit, who, like Running Shoes, was sired by Gimmethegreenlight.

Lot 111: Wood Green c Gimmethegreenlight -Winter Wood
This colt is a half-brother to G3 Europa Point Man O’War Sprint winner Mercantour and the smart filly My Lady Soul. His dam is a Western Winter half-sister to Royal Vintage, a stakes winner in both Dubai and South Africa, and G2 November Handicap winner Alderry. The latter produced three black type horses, notably G1 SA Derby winner Al Sahem, and the dam of G3 Sea Cottage Stakes winner La Moohal.
Western Winter, South Africa’s Leading Broodmare Sire of 2017-2018, is broodmare sire of more than 60 stakes winners including champions Carry On Alice, Good Traveller, and Past Master.

Lot 154: In Due Course f Gimmethegreenlight -Due Diligence
From the same family as the Gimmethegreenlight sired stakes winners Cala Muretta, Favorita, Give Me Everything and Hack Green, this filly is out of a G3 Starling Stakes winning daughter of Silvano.
Due Diligence, in turn, is a half-sister to G3 Fillies Mile winner Ghaalla, the latter a R5 000 000 yearling buy, and Due Diligence and Ghaalla are out of the winning Captain Al mare Fidelity, a three-parts sister to Triple Crown winner Malmoos and Varsfontein’s promising young sire Erik The Red. This filly is bred on the same Gimmethegreenlight/Silvano cross as champion Bless My Stars.

Lot 48: Trompe L’Oeil c Gimmethegreenlight -Mirage
Bred on the same Gimmethegreenlight/Captain Al cross as champions Proceed and Sandringham Summit, this colt is out of Listed KwaZulu-Natal Stakes winner Mirage.
His granddam Sea Glitter is a Holy Bull three-parts sister to the Holy Bull sired G1 Kentucky Derby winner Giacomo, with the latter a half-brother to G1 Santa Anita Derby/G1 Goodwood Stakes winner Tiago.
This is also the family of the very fast US sire Nashville, as well as G3 Providencia Stakes winner Medoro.

Lot 70: Roman Reign: c Gimmethegreenlight -Roman Royalty
Out of a winning daughter of successful Australian sire All Too Hard, this colt’s granddam Roman Treasure won three stakes races in the US and was also third in the G1 Test Stakes.
Roman Treasure was produced by G1 Fantasy Stakes winner and G1 Breeders’ Cup Juvenile Fillies runner up Jeanne Jones, a daughter of legendary racehorse and sire Nijinsky II.

Lot 110: Cairn William c Gimmethegreenlight -Wintersweet
Out of a winning full-sister to the G3 placed dam of graded stakes winners Black Arthur and Robert The Bruce, this colt is a half-brother to G1 Cape Guineas winner Tap O’ Noth, G3 Cape Summer Stayers winner Strathdon and G3 Lonsdale Stirrup Cup hero Black Knap.
Wintersweet is directly descended in female line from none other than Mumtaz Mahal, one of the most influential mares in the stud book, and Wintersweet’s fourth dam Courtessa is granddam of both outstanding sprinter Habibti and legendary broodmare Eight Carat.

For more information on this draft, interested parties are asked to contact Carl De Vos on 082 800 8490.

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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