Image by Chase Liebenberg Photography
Champion Hawwaam, one of the very
best sons of five times champion South African sire Silvano, is set to retire
to Wilgerbosdrift for the 2021 breeding season.
Shadwell, who raced Hawwaam with
so much success, are planning to support him at stud, and the entire industry
would like to thank H.H. Sheikha Hissa and the family for their ongoing support
and look forward to seeing Hawwaam return to South Africa.
South Africa’s Champion 3YO of
2018-2019, Hawwaam won ten of 13 starts, with his victories including five at
G1 level.
His victories included a pair of
triumphs in the G1 Premier’s Champions Challenge, as well as the G1 H F
Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes, G1 Daily News 2000 (a race won previously by
outstanding sire Dynasty as well as the increasingly successful Vercingetorix)
and G1 SA Classic.
Hawwaam, who won a total of eight
graded races during his career, accounted for some outstanding performers
during his career, including champions Do It Again, Legal Eagle,
Soqrat,Talktothestars and Vardy, and fellow G1 winners Atyaab, Chimichuri Run,
Eyes Wide Open, Queen Supreme, Tilbury Fort, Undercover Agent and Zillzaal.
Described as an outstanding
physical speciamn, Hawwaam was a R1 000 000 buy from the 2017 National Yearling
Sale.
Hawwaam, whose full-brother
Celestial City cost R7 000 000 as a yearling, is one of more than 100 stakes
winners for his outstanding sire Silvano, whose son Vercingetorix ranks as one
of the best young stallions currently standing in South Africa.
He is one of three G1 winners
produced by Jet Master’s G3 Prix Du Cap winning daughter Halfway To Heaven,
South Africa’s Broodmare Of The Year in both 2018-2019 and 2019-2020.
Halfway To Heaven, dam of four
winners from as many runners, is also dam of four time G1 winner, and dual Met
winner Rainbow Bridge, and G1 ARF Commemorative Cape Derby/World Sports Betting
Champions Cup hero Golden Ducat.
Remarkably, between them, Halfway
To Heaven sons have won 11 G1 races and earned more than R15 million in stakes.
A champion himself, Hawwaam is by
a champion sire out of a champion broodmare -he has everything to recommend him
as a stallion of the future!
