One of the closest fought Sires championships in SA history was in the 2014/2015 season and in the end Captain Al pipped Dynasty at the post, thus becoming the first SA-bred champion stallion to be stood by the stud who bred him since Henry Nourse’s Dwarsvlei Stud achieved that feat with Dignitary in 1934.

The stunning foal pictured above is the result of a mating between Captain Al’s classy twice Grade 2-winning sprinter Erik The Red (who won six of ten starts) and  Dynasty’s multiple Grade 1-winning champion Bela-Bela.

This colt’s birth came hard on the heels of Bela-Bela’s Gimmethegreenlight daughter Ciao Bella running out an impressive winner of a Graduation Plate event over 1250m at Hollywoodbets Durbanville last week.

The Justin Snaith-trained Ciao Bella races in the colours of her breeders, Varsfontein.

Only time will tell whether Bela-Bela’s latest foal will be seen at the sales one day.