Picture: Grade 1 SA Classic winner Heavenly Blue (Snitzel) stands at Ascot Stud together with Global View (Candiese Lenferna).
Ascot Stud stood the great champion stallion Al Mufti, who returned to racing after his first season at stud and went close in the 1991 Durban July, losing by just a quarter-of-a-length to a flying Flaming Rock.
Al Mufti was the SA champion stallion in 1999/2000 and he was not only a fine broodmare sire, but his son Captain Al also became a SA Champion stallion.
Ashley Parker and his mother Rose, owners of Ascot Stud, went close to winning the July of 1991 as owners.
The Parkers were the nominees of Al Mufti’s ownership syndicate.
However, they had consolation in 2010 when the horse they bred, Bold Silvano, who was by Silvano out of Al Mufti mare Bold Saffron, won the July.
He was trained by Mike de Kock, ridden by Anthony Delpech and owned by Sheik Mohammed Bin Khalifa Al Maktoum and Gill Thompson.
Ascot have stood other good sires over the years such as Sail From Seattle, who produced four individual Grade 1 winners.
Today Ascot stands Global View (Galileo) and SA Classic winner Heavenly Blue, who is by the top Australian sire Snitzel.
Pauline Herman visited Ascot Stud this week and took these fine pictures of their “future champions”.
