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We say goodbye to our beloved Champion
Today is a very sad day for the Jacobs family, Maine Chance Farms, Gestüt Fährhof and the South African Racing and Breeding Industry, as we bid farewell to the kind, gentle Champion Silvano. Silvano was humanely euthanased at the age of 25 after a serious bout of colic yesterday evening. He enjoyed a year of... read more
A Champion and a Gentleman
The announcement that Silvano had retired from stud duties produced a flood of emotions. There was sadness that the production line had stopped and relief that it was ‘just’ retirement. Mostly, there is gratitude, for the tremendous privilege of knowing this exceptional horse, and for everything he has meant to so many participants in the... read more
The dominance of Silvano’s progeny
Few superlatives remain to describe the dominance of Silvano’s progeny. A quartet of Graded wins topped by a superb Gr.1 double, highlighted yet another banner weekend for our mighty stalwart. At Turffontein on Saturday, we bade farewell to one of Silvano’s finest gallopers, the colt Hawwaam, who is set to continue his career on the... read more
Querari’s daughter Herrin wins the Lady’s Slipper
Querari’s excellent recent run of juvenile successes continued unabated when his two-year-old daughter Herrin scored a runaway victory in the Listed Lady’s Slipper Stakes at Fairview. Allan Greeff’s charge pounced at the 300m mark and strode away to come home unharassed, leaving her rivals trailing by more than three lengths at the line. Fresh off... read more
Querari churning out the winners
That Querari is churning out the winners at a rate of knots, would be understatement. At the Turffontein meeting on Monday, juvenile son Action Packed swept to a two-length maiden success to become his sire’s eighth individual winner in the space of less than a week. Querari’s hot streak started with a fine treble of... read more
Miyabi Gold wins Listed East Coast Cup
Silvano’s talented daughter Miyabi Gold proved there’s no substitute for class when she raced to a scintillating victory in the Listed East Coast Cup at Greyville. Stepping out for the first time since finishing just out of the frame in the February 1 Gr.1 Majorca Stakes, Justin Snaith’s class act was let loose by Anton... read more
Maine Chance stallions dominate the Gr.3 Strelitzia Stakes
Maine Chance stallions dominated the outcome of the Gr.3 Strelitzia Stakes at Scottsville, while providing Vercingetorix with a newly-minted stakes winner, his fifth overall. Restricted to juvenile fillies, this 1100m dash up the straight was widely expected to be at the mercy of unbeaten Var filly Delta Queen. However, after disputing the lead with Querari’s... read more
Silvano G1 & G2 Double
He’s back. Silvano’s brilliant son Hawwaam added a fourth Gr.1 win to his resumé on what proved to be a red-letter day for both his sire and breeders Mary and Jessica Slack. Last seen out third in the Gr.1 Sun Met at Kenilworth, his return to Turffontein, arguably his favourite racetrack, once again brought out... read more
Silvano’s son Chefano wins the Gr.3 Queen Mother Memorial Stakes at Sha Tin, Hong Kong
Silvano has reached yet another notable milestone in his illustrious stud innings. A renowned globetrotter as a racehorse, his stallion career has followed a similar pattern in that he has sired international stakes winners in Britain, Europe, Dubai, the US and Singapore. This past weekend, our champion stallion added Hong Kong to that growing list,... read more
Vercingetorix’s son Ikigai wins G2 Gauteng Guineas
It was always going to be just a matter of time before Silvano’s champion son Vercingetorix sired his first classic winner. That honour fell to Sean Tarry’s Ikigai, who continued his rise to prominence in the Gr.2 Gauteng Guineas under the Turffontein lights. Following the scratching of stable companion, the Dingaans winner Shango, it was... read more
Silvano – a fine stakes double
The Guineas meeting at Turffontein provided Silvano with yet another fine stakes double, pride of place going to three-year-old daughter Summer Pudding, who kept her unbeaten record intact when she captured the opening leg of the Triple Tiara, the Gr.2 Gauteng Fillies Guineas. Not even a slow run race and a dropped rein could prevent... read more
SABIANGO dies at the age of 21
Gestüt Fährhof in Germany has reported the death of its three-time group/grade 1 winner Sabiango at the age of 21. Sabiango was a true son of Fährhof, as he was by the stud’s brilliant racecourse performer and sire Acatenango and out of its excellent broodmare Spirit of Eagles, who also produced Arlington Million (G1) and Audemars Piguet... read more
Red-Letter Day for Silvano
The Cape Guineas meeting at Kenilworth proved to be a red-letter day for Silvano, our champion weighing in with a trio of winners, amongst which Kilindini, who claimed the R1-million Gr.1 mile classic while making his stakes debut. Brett Crawford’s previously unexposed colt dashed to the inside rail at the top of the straight, delivered the... read more
ZILLZAAL takes R2-Million Summer Cup G1
The month of November ended on a smashing high for Silvano when he sired the first and third across the line in the rich 2000 m Gr.1 Summer Cup at Turffontein, barely a week after his unbeaten daughter Summer Pudding had captured the Gr.3 Fillies Mile. In addition, the result also catapulted him straight back... read more
SUMMER PUDDING wins the G3 Fillies Mile
Making her first foray into stakes company, Silvano’s daughter Summer Pudding put up a scintillating effort to claim the Gr.3 Fillies Mile at Turffontein and become her sire’s 84th locally-bred stakes winner, while stretching her perfect record to three from three. The race developed into a bit of a scramble as several fillies threw down... read more
SILVER OPERATOR – Guineas Prospect
Silvano’s three-year-old son, Silver Operator, stamped himself a proper Guineas prospect with a first stakes victory in the Gr.3 Cape Classic at Kenilworth. Sent off a warm favourite, the Vaughan Marshall-trained colt lived up to the hype. He picked it up in mid-stretch and once on the lead, galloped on resolutely, while holding the charge... read more
Querari’s Mill Queen
Querari’s three-year-old Mill Queen opened her three-year-old season on a triumphant note when she registered a first stakes success in the Gr.3 HSH Princess Charlene Starling Stakes at Turffontein. Not seen out for 98 days, the David Nieuwenhuizen-trained filly launched a strong challenge up the inside, to draw alongside Vercingetorix’s Maine Chance-bred daughter Wisteria Walk... read more
Waldgeist wins the Gr1 Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe
Sunday’s thrilling Gr1 Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe victory for Galileo’s son Waldgeist may have been a deflationary moment for the romantics shouting the history hungry Enable home, but it was an iconic occasion all round for one of South Africa’s leading breeders, Dr Andreas Jacobs, who acquired Maine Chance from Graham Beck shortly after... read more
Another G1 winner for Erupt’s sire Dubawi
Ghaiyyath, a son of Dubawi, produced a stunning run to win the G1 Grosser Preis von Baden on Sunday, 1 September at Baden-Baden. A winner of the G2 Prix d’Harcourt earlier in the season, the four-year-old colt made virtually all of the running under jockey William Buick. Proving too good for the chasing pack, Ghaiyyath was... read more
ERUPT’S half-brother breaks his maiden in the UK
Maine Chance Farms’ regally bred young stallion Erupt gained yet another update to his impressive pedigree when his two-year-old half-brother Visible Charm (by Invincible Spirit) got off the mark, when victorious at Nottingham on Friday. Trained by Charlie Appleby, Visible Charm justified his 11-8 favouritism status by running out a comfortable one and a quarter length... read more
ERUPT (IRE) Video
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HAWWAAM wins DAILY NEWS 2000 G1
HAWWAAM (Silvano – Halfway To Heaven by Jet Master) – winner of DAILY NEWS 2000 G1 at Greyville by 1,6 lengths from TWIST OF FATE, CAPOEIRA and ZILLZAAL (by Silvano). HAWWAAM was bred by Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein and is owned by Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, trained by Mike de Kock and ridden by Anton... read more
SILVANO’S PRIDE wins R1,000,000 WOOLAVINGTON 2000 G1
SILVANO’S PRIDE (Silvano – Mary’s Pride by Jet Master) – winner of the R1,000,000 WOOLAVINGTON 2000 G1 at Greyville by 0,3 lengths from FRONT AND CENTRE, BLOSSOM (by Silvano) and SEVILLE ORANGE. SILVANO’S PRIDE is bred and owned by Anthony Peter, trained by Justin Snaith and ridden by Richard Fourie.
SUNSHINE SILK wins R500,000 GOLD BOWL G3
SUNSHINE SILK (Silvano – Vanilla Silk by Al Mufti) – winner of the R500,000 GOLD BOWL G3 at Turffontein by 0,5 lengths from DROMEDARIS and TIRZAN. SUNSHINE SILK was bred by Gold Star Stud and is owned by Mrs. A Devachander, trained by Geoff Woodruff and was ridden by Gavin Lerena.
Silvano’s HAWWAAM wins Champions Challenge G1
HAWWAAM (Silvano – Halfway To Heaven by Jet Master) – winner of THE R4,000,000 PREMIER’S CHAMPIONS CHALLENGE G1 at Turffontein by 4 lengths from CASCAPEDIA and DIVINE ODYSSEY. HAWWAAM was bred by Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein and is owned by Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, trained by Mike de Kock and was ridden by Anton Marcus.
Querari’s Head Honcho strikes again
Querari’s son Head Honcho demonstrated that attribute so prized in a thoroughbred, courage and tenacity, when he registered his first Graded success in Greyville’s Gr.3 Betting World 2200 on July day. With no pace on, jockey Keagan de Melo boldly sent Sabine Plattner’s homebred to the front fully 1000m from home and that is where... read more
Silvano’s Dominance
The dominance of Silvano was never more evident than in the Gr.2 Gold Bracelet at Greyville on Gold Cup day. In a pulsating finish to the 2000m race, our champion sire ended the season on a high by siring three of the first five runners across the line. Victory went to his lightly-raced three-year-old daughter... read more
GOLDEN SPRINT DAY DOUBLE
Maine Chance-bred runners had a field day at Scottsville’s famed Golden Sprint meeting, winning two of the four prestigious Gr.1 races. Pathfork filly Mighty High, on just her second racetrack appearance, initiated the double in the Allan Robertson Championship. Approaching the final furlong, the juvenile was caught behind a wall of horses with nowhere to... read more
PLANO – PERFECTION OVER 3600m
Silvano continued his stranglehold on South Africa’s longest race, the 3600m Port Elizabeth Gold Cup when Maine Chance-bred Plano captured the lung-bursting event to provide his sire with a fourth win in the past six years. He joins Silvano’s excellent staying son Crown Of Gold, who contested the marathon race three times and dominated on... read more
Silvano’s son Elusive Silva
If at first you don’t succeed, try and try again. Fifth in last year’s Gr.2 Betting World 1900, Silvano’s son Elusive Silva made no mistake this time round and overcame the extreme outside draw to redeem himself in fine style. Racing amongst the backmarkers early on, jockey Bernard Fayd’Herbe switched the chestnut to the centre... read more
Sommerlied bounced back to best in the Gr.3 Poinsettia Stakes
Maine Chance Farms’ homebred Sommerlied bounced back to best in the Gr.3 Poinsettia Stakes up the Scottsville straight, thus throwing her hat into the ring for the Gr.1 SA Fillies Sprint on 27 May. Returning from a three-month break, the fleet-footed daughter of Var snapped a three-race losing streak with a determined neck victory over... read more
Silvano – A Weekend To Remember
Silvano had another weekend to remember when, in the space of just 24 hours, he added two new stakes winners to his ever growing tally. On 30 March, at Fairview in Port Elizabeth, gelded son Sabbatical earned classic honours with his last gasp success in the Listed East Cape Guineas. Caught behind a wall of... read more
Querari – Building On His Success
Querari’s progeny continue to build on the success of their sire as the season progresses. Whilst his soon to be exported star son, Monks Hood, was a much-missed absentee from the line-up of Turffontein’s Gr.1 SA Classic, the sprinter Pinnacle Peak went a long way to filling that void with a visually impressive maiden stakes... read more
Querari 2-y-o’s finish 1, 2 & 3 in the Listed Ruffian Stakes
While Silvano’s domination of stakes races has been well documented – his progeny having filled the top two or three spots in many of the country’s premier races – that ability now appears to have rubbed off on barn mate, Querari. The son of Oasis Dream took a leaf out of our champion’s book when he sired... read more
Silvano & Querari Rise To The Occasion
Maine Chance stallions once again rose to the occasion at Turffontein’s Guineas meeting, with their respective progeny accounting for two of the four graded stakes on the card. The sophomore colts division has a new poster boy in the shape of Querari’s ultra-talented son Monks Hood. Trained by Alistair Gordon, the Wilgerbosdrift colour bearer rose... read more
Maine Chance bred Janoobi wins Group 2 Zabeel Mile in Dubai
Maine Chance-bred Janoobi, already a Gr.2 Guineas winner in his native country, added a Dubai victory to his resumé when landing the Group 2 Zabeel Mile over the Meydan turf track. Sheikh Hamdan’s talented four-year-old tracked long-time leader and last year’s winner Championship throughout and, when set alight, collared his adversary close to home before... read more
Liege wins Sansui Summer Cup G1
Maine Chance Farms added another Gr.1 success to its honour roll when Liege powered to victory in the Sansui Summer Cup at Turffontein. Having run fourth in the same race in 2016, the five-year-old quickened impressively in the straight to gain the advantage 300m from home and ran on stoutly to score by a decisive... read more
A MEMORABLE WEEKEND FOR MAINE CHANCE
A stakes double put the seal on a memorable weekend for Maine Chance, which saw a quartet of fillies score in the stud’s silks. Homebred Girl On The Run set the ball rolling under the Turffontein lights when she trumped her male rivals in a thrilling finish to the Gr.3 Victory Moon Stakes. The daughter... read more
Canadian glory for Quidura
Talented four-year-old filly Quidura, a half-sister to well performed Cape sires Querari and Quasillo, scored an impressive victory in the G2 Canadian Stakes at Woodbine on Saturday. Querari A daughter of Dubawi, Quidura got past Starship Jubilee inside the final furlong of Saturday’s 1800m turf feature and won by a length for Gestut Fahrhof, trainer... read more
SILVANO – SA RACING’S PRIDE – OUR JOY
The accolades just keep coming for Silvano. At a glittering Equus Awards ceremony in Johannesburg, our blue chip sire took home the silverware for Stallion of the Year, barely a week after receiving a similar accolade at the Cape Breeders Awards evening. The honours are well-deserved, for Silvano had just notched up a second Champion... read more
LATERAL IS NO MORE
Lateral [GB] was put down on Wednesday night, 16 August. The 14-year-old stood at Southford Stud, for the past three seasons, but sadly suffered a broken leg. An Italian champion at two and the leading three-year-old and miler in Germany in 2006, Lateral possessed a rare turn of foot for a son of classic sire... read more
Silvano – The Gentle Champion
Silvano was named 2016-17 Stallion Of The Year at this week’s Cape Breeders Awards evening, held in Stellenbosch. The country’s leading stallion of 2013-14, our flagship stallion claimed a second Champion Sires’ Title when ending the 2016-17 racing season with all-time record progeny earnings of R27,867,675. Such was his dominance, that he finished nearly R8,7-million... read more
MAXIOS (GB) 2008 | Monsun – Moonlight’s Box by Nureyev
MAXIOS (GB) stands in Germany at Andreas Jacobs’ Stiftung Gestüt Fährhof. Maxios is Monsun’s best bred son at stud and is from the family of NORTHERN DANCER and DANEHILL. MAXIOS is also half-brother to European Champion, BAGO, winner of the Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris G1, Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe G1, Prix Ganay G1,... read more
THE JACOBS FACTOR
THE JACOBS FACTOR – by Robyn Louw – Dr Andreas Jacobs’ SA Stud Book Influence – One of my favourite things is my annual Durban July debrief with Charles Faull, historian and form analyst extraordinaire, who always comes up with some firm and interesting views on what we can learn from the outcome of the... read more
Querari & Quasillo’s half-sister QUIDURA (GB) – 2nd in G1 at Saratoga, USA
QUIDURA (Querari and Quasillo’s half-sister by Dubawi) ran a gallant 2nd in the $500,000 G1 Diana Stakes at Saratoga, USA on Saturday, 22nd July. Owned by Andreas Jacobs’ Gestut Fahrhof, the Dubawi filly led the field close to home and fought gallantly all the way to the line, to be just headed by Lady Eli, a... read more
SILVANO’S OFFSPRING DOMINATE
On what was a great day of racing, Silvano stamped his mark on Greyville’s July meeting by siring the first two home in the prestigious Gr.1 Vodacom Durban July. Top honours went to the 2016 runner-up, Marinaresco, who turned on the turbo up the straight, adding the country’s premier race to his already impressive resumé,... read more
SILVANO’S JULY PROSPECTS
Silvano four-year-old, Mr Winsome, secured his place in the final field for the R4.25 million Gr.1 Vodacom Durban July with his gutsy victory in the Gr.3 Track & Ball Derby at Scottsville on 18 June. Dean Kannemeyer’s charge engaged in a protracted stretch duel with Sun On Africa, but gained the upper hand close to... read more
Joking, becoming serious
Joking, a juvenile daughter of Querari, broke her maiden in the best possible way, with a stylish stakes victory. Facing her sternest test to date, the Maine Chance-bred filly took on stakes winning colts in the Listed Dahlia Plate at Fairview, and passed with flying colours. Approaching the final furlong nearer the back of the... read more
Classic Treble for Silvano
No stallion has dominated a single weekend as Silvano has done. In the space of 24 hours, our champion sired three Classic winners on two different race courses, and a champion son made a triumphant return to action. For the second time in history, our champion sired the winners of both the Gr.1 SA Derby... read more
Silvano flush with a number of exciting three-year-olds
Silvano is flush with a number of exciting three-year-olds this season. This was underlined at Turffontein’s Classic meeting. Having sired the first two home in the March Gr.2 Gauteng Guineas, this time it was Silvano’s daughter, Orchid Island, who provided him with a coveted Gr.1 success, when she landed the SA Fillies Classic, sponsored by... read more
Southern Hemisphere Apex
Oppenheim: Southern Hemisphere Apex Tuesday, March 7, 2017 | By Bill Oppenheim It’s been pretty hot down south so far in 2017, literally as well as figuratively. It’s been a while since we turned the APEX focus to the Southern Hemisphere, so it seems like a good time to take a fresh look. As always,... read more
Dominant Silvano
The result of Saturday’s R1-million Gr.2 Gauteng Guineas once again underlined Silvano’s ability to dominate major stakes races. On Met day, his daughters Nightingale and Star Expess hogged the limelight in the Gr.1 Klawervlei Majorca Stakes, and it was more of the same at Turffontein when his sons Janoobi and Al Sahem fought out a... read more
Banner Hill – G3 winning stakes debut
Maine Chance-bred Banner Hill completed a Gr.3 double for Maine Chance on Queen’s Plate Day – in the marathon Gr.3 Chairman’s Cup over 3200m. Banner Hill – making his stakes debut in this lung-bursting event, the Glen Kotzen runner took the step up in class in his stride, with a rattling come-from-behind victory. The newly-minted stakes... read more
Silvano – stamping his authority
Silvano stamped his authority on the coveted Gr.1 Klawervlei Majorca Stakes in no uncertain manner when he sired the first two across the line, in addition to which he also featured as the broodmare sire of the third-placed runner. In what was without a doubt the finish of Kenilworth’s showpiece Met meeting, his daughters Nightingale... read more
Maine Chance bred HORIZON set for Cape Derby G1
While he may not have beaten much, the high-profile Dynasty colt Horizon put together a convincing performance and booked his ticket into the Investec Cape Derby G1 when winning the R250 000 Gr3 Politician Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday. Trying the 1800m for the first time, the handsome colt rose to the occasion and suggested that... read more
Time Odyssey – 2nd in Singapore G1
Maine Chance-bred Time Odyssey was rewarded with his first Gr.1 black type this past weekend when he ran out a game second in the Dester Singapore Gold Cup at Kranji, the third leg of the Singapore Triple Crown. In a slow-run race, the Pat Shaw-trained five-year-old chased home long-time leader Bahana (Elusive City) and fell... read more
QUERARI sibling QUIDURA (GB) proves strongest in G3 Valley View Stakes in USA
Gestut Fahrhof’s homebred Quidura (GB) put away rival My Impression (Sky Mesa) and drew clear in the straight to win the G3 Pin Oak Valley View Stakes, the feature race at Keeneland on Friday, by a length and a quarter. Content to sit just off the pace in fourth through the early stages of the race,... read more
Another G2 Winner for Querari (Ger)
Even money favourite Kangaroo Jack (Querari – Rainbow Flag by Model Man) showed his class with an authoritative win in Saturday’s G2 Joburg Spring Challenge at Turffontein over 1450m. Bred and owned by the Wallace family and trained by Gary Alexander, the 4yo made it 5 wins in a row with an easy 2 length victory in the R400,000 contest, beating... read more
Tellina (Silvano) – an eye-catching effort in his German debut
Fresh off a six-month break, Maine Chance home-bred Tellina marked his return to action with an eye-catching effort in his German debut for the Andreas Wohler stable. Contesting the Gr.3 German St Leger at Dortmund in the silks of Maine Chance’s German sister stud, Stiftung Gestüt Fahrhof, the Silvano gelding was held up towards the... read more
Marinaresco (by Silvano) wins the Champions Cup Gr1
MARINARESCO (by Silvano – Gay Fortuna by Fort Wood) winner of the Champions Cup Gr1 on 31 July 2016 by 1,25 lengths from Judicial, No Worries and Saratoga Dancer. Marinaresco was 2nd in the Vodacom Durban July Gr1 and 3rd in the Investec Cape Derby Gr1. Marinaresco has recently been awarded a merit rating of 110. Durban-based... read more
Querari (GER) gets his first Gr1 Winner
QUERARI FALCON (Querari – Pretty Waves by Crimson Waves) wins the THEKWINI STAKES (Grade 1) by a length from Dawn Calling. Prominent owner Adriaan van Vuuren paid only R90,000 for Querari Falcon. She is the first Gr 1 produced by the promising Oasis Dream stallion Querari (GER), who stands at Main Chance Farms. Trained by... read more
Maine Chance Record Breaker!
The pedigree stood out, the specimen stood out and in the end, his price stood out! The pick of the sale, Lot 48, consigned by Maine Chance Farms, a Dynasty colt out of the full sister to Silvano fetched a record price for a yearling sold on our shores. At R5.2 million he was knocked... read more
Silvano Offspring Dominate in Durban July
The progeny of 2001 Arlington Million (gr. I) winner Silvano dominated the finish of the 2015 Vodacom Durban July (SAf-I) July 4 at Greyville Racecourse in South Africa. Silvano sons Power King, Punta Arenas, and Tellina ran 1-2-3 to give their sire, South Africa’s champion sire in 2012-2013, the trifecta in the R3.5 million race.... read more
Newsells is leading vendor at Tattersalls October Yearling Sale Book 1
09/10/2015 Street Cry ex Shastye Newsells Park Stud enjoyed outstanding results at the Tattersalls Book 1 Sale this week finishing as the leading vendor with an aggregate of 8,160,000gns, and an average of 429,474gns for 19 lots sold. The highlight being the sale topper and highest priced auction yearling in the world this year, Lot... read more
Record Price for Dubawi Colt at Tattersalls October Book 2
Trade on the second day of Book 2 of the Tattersalls October Yearling Sale continued to be strong with the highlight coming at the beginning of the sale when a colt by Dubawi achieved a record breaking price of 725,000 guineas when selling to John Ferguson. The fireworks on Day 2 arrived just before lunchtime... read more
Yearling filly out of Loveisallyouneed realises 2.1m gns at Tattersalls
07/10/2015 Loveisallyouneed yearling by Dubawi Newsells Park Stud is enjoying a tremendous sale so far with their consignment at Tattersalls Book 1 Sale this year. The highlight being the sale topper today and highest priced yearling this year, Lot 304, a daughter of Dubawi out of Loveisallyouneed, a daughter of the wonderful mare Jude, selling... read more
Legatissimo shows her star quality in Gr.1 Matron Stakes
13/09/2015 Legatissimo Matron Stakes Legatissimo showed her star quality once again with a comfortable victory in the Coolmore Fastnet Rock Matron Stakes (Gr.1) over 1m at Leopardstown yesterday for owners Michael Tabor, Mrs John Magnier and Derrick Smith. Bred, raised and sold by Newsells Park Stud, it was a top-class performance by this three-year-old filly.... read more
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Erupt
(IRE)
by Caerleon
Multiple G1 Winning Son of Dubawi - The only British stallion to ever sire over 100 Group winners. Sire of 44 G1 winners so far. 16% Stakes winners and 10% Group winners makes him one of the world’s greatest stallions. From a family of Champion Sires - FLYING SPUR, ENCOSTA DE LAGO, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR & LODE. Dam is a G1 Performer - from the Great Foundation Mare - FANFRELUCHE.
Querari
(GER)
by Acatenango
Champion Sire of 2yo's South Africa 2018-19. 4th Leading Sire of 2yo's 2020-21. Sire of 381 progeny to race, 240 winners (62.0%), earnings of over R50 million, 26 stakes winners, 27 stakes placegetters.
Silvano
(GER)
by Beau’s Eagle
Champion Sire in South Africa in 2012-13, 2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 & 2019-20. Leading Sire by Winners in South Africa in 2015-16, 2016-17, 2017-18 & 2019-20. Champion First Season Sire Germany. Champion Sire in Slovakia in 2007. Sire of 1151 progeny to race, 805 winners (69.0%), earnings of over R224 million, 101 stakes winners, 82 stakes placegetters.
Vercingetorix
(SAF)
by National Assembly
Leading First Season Sire in South Africa 2018-19. Champion Sire of 3yo's South Africa 2019-20. 4th Leading Sire South Africa 2020-21. 3rd Leading Sire of 2yo's 2020-21. Sire of 170 progeny to race, 105 winners (61.0%), earnings of over R19 million, 12 stakes winners, 15 stakes placegetters.
Quasillo
(GER)
Champion 3YO in Germany in 2015. Group winning son of Sea The Stars (Horse of the Year in Europe in 2009. Champion 3yo Colt in Europe in 2009. Champion 3yo in GB & Ireland in 2009), from a family of Champions. Half-brother to Champion Juvenile Sire, Querari. Sire of 6 runners, 2 winners, 1 stakes placed to date.