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TIGER RIDGE has a flawless stallion's pedigree. TIGER RIDGE is a son of World Leading sire STORM CAT, (sire of sires Giant's Causeway, Hennessy, Forestry, Harlan, Tale Of The Cat, Stormy Atlantic etc) TIGER RIDGE is a half-brother to Preakness winner SUMMER SQUALL and to Horse-Of-The-Year and CHAMPION SIRE, AP INDY. (The immediate family of AL MUFTI, SPORTSWORLD, LEMON DROP KID, etc.) (see attached.)
TIGER RIDGE is inbred 2x3 to SECRETARIAT (through two females) and offers South African breeder's the most exciting mating opportunities.
In his first two crops, TIGER RIDGE has produced 7 stakes winners (6% of foals) and a further 6 stakes placed horses. (see attached) The SEVEN stakes-horses in his first crop were bred from 61 mares who had never managed to bred a single stakes-winner between them! Bashert (currently recuperating from injury), from TIGER RIDGE'S 2nd crop, was rated 113 on Experimental Free Hcp, just 2 lb behind Derby Hero- BARBARO. TIGER RIDGE has an AEI of 1.59 against a Comp AEI of 1.20 - further evidence that he is a serious "upgrader" (As were JUNGLE COVE and DANCING CHAMP)
Should you wish to book a service to TIGER RIDGE, call John Everett on (022) 942 1266 or 083 658 7804.
Press Clippings include: By
DAVE GOLDMAN. Copyright © Daily
Racing Form. A look
at the list of the 50 leading sires in North America shows that every one
of them is a graded stakes winner, giving currency to those who require
performance as well as pedigree when patronizing a stallion. This list,
however, may soon include Tiger Ridge, whose abbreviated racing career was
limited to 3 places from 5 starts in maiden company. Tiger
Ridge, standing at Hartley/DeRenzo Walmac South, has all the requisites to
have been a graded stakes winner, possibly a champion. A 9-year-old son of
Storm Cat, Tiger Ridge is a half-brother to Eclipse champion and leading
sire A. P. Indy, a half-brother to classic winner and successful sire
Summer Squall and to the deceased stallion Honor Grades, sire of the
multiple Grade 1 stakes winner Honor Glide. Pedigree, to be sure, is
there, but is pedigree enough to make up for a suspect racing record?
Maybe, especially if looks are added into the equation. "Tiger
Ridge would be the spitting image of his sire if he had one more white
foot," said Dean De Renzo of Hartley/DeRenzo Walmac South. "He
fractured a cannon bone as a 2 year-old, they put some screws in his leg,
and gave him a year off. The remedy did not hold, and after a couple of
tries, he was retired to stud." Florida
breeders think Tiger Ridge had the right stuff, as they filled his book at
$7,500 per season for every season the stallion has been at stud. From his
first two full books, Tiger Ridge put 126 foals on the ground. Horses
in his first two crops are now 2-year-olds and 3-year-olds, and 71 of them
are racing and 43 have won, including six stakes winners. The stakes
winners cannot be lumped together because they have won short and long on
the dirt, and long on the turf. Therecomesatiger
is a 3-year-old by Tiger Ridge who has been moving up the class ladder. In
five starts, all on the turf, this son of a South African mare by Artistry
has won four times and was third in his other race. His latest victory
came this past week in the $150,000 Commonwealth Turf at Churchill Downs. PRESS CUTTINGS
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