Bloodstock
South Africa sold thoroughbreds stole the show at Turffontein on
Saturday, with former National Sale buy Hawwaam winning the G1 H F
Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes (1600m) and National 2YO Sale graduate
Our Of Your League landing the G1 SA Derby (2450m) on the same day.
The
Mike de Kock trained Hawwaam, a R1 000 000 buy from the 2017 National
Yearling Sale, showed his class when romping home to a clear-cut and
decisive victory in the H F Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes.
Last
season’s Equus Champion 3YO Colt, the Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al
Maktoum owned four-year-old pulled clear under jockey Callan Murray to
land the 2020 Horse Chestnut Stakes by just under a length and a half.
Hawwaam,
who was bred by Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein, has now won nine
of just 12 starts (for earnings of R6 514 775, and his seven graded
victories include wins in all of the G1 SA Classic, G1 Premier’s
Champions Challenge, G1 Daily News 2000 and the aforementioned Horse
Chestnut Stakes.
One
of 96 stakes winners sired by multiple champion sire Silvano (who has
37 lots on offer at the upcoming National Yearling Sale), Hawwaam is one
of three G1 winners produced by the Jet Master sired G3 Prix du Cap
heroine Halfway To Heaven.
Halfway
To Heaven, South Africa’s Broodmare Of The Year in 2018-2019, has a
Silvano own brother to Hawwaam, by the name of Celestial City (Lot 185),
on offer at this year’s Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale.
Trainer
Fabian Habib picked up his first G1 triumph when he sent out Out Of
Your League, a R130 000 buy from the 2018 Emperors Palace National 2YO
Sale, to land Saturday’s SA Derby, the final leg of South Africa’s
Triple Crown.
The
Wynand Nel bred gelding made most of the running, under jockey Raymond
Danielson, and showed plenty of heart when fighting back to score a half
length win.
A
third G1 winner for the Klipdrif based SA Derby winner Elusive Fort,
Out Of Your League is owned by Messrs JJ Habib, Late SFG Habib, GJ
Nassif, J Nassif, NJ Nassif, Miss NK Nassif, Mr WC Nassif & Mrs C
Nassif & Tri-Deal Sixteen CC (Nom: Mr ZL Nassif).
Now
a three time winner from just nine starts, Out Of Your League took his
earnings to R421 175 with his courageous win on Saturday.
The
day’s “Cherry On The Top” moment came when unbeaten filly Summer
Pudding (Silvano-Cherry On The Cake) won the G2 Wilgerbosdrift SA Oaks
(2450m) to become just the third three-year-old to sweep the
Wilgerbosdrift Triple Tiara.
Now
unbeaten in six starts, the Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein bred
Summer Pudding has a What A Winter half-brother, by the name of
Vanderbilt (Lot 85), on offer at the 2020 Emperors Palace National
Yearling Sale.
