The Elusive Fort full-sister to Kommetdieding who went for R3.2 million (BSA).

Kenneth Pillay’s Kestorm Investments won a second career Grade 1 this season with the Sean Tarry-trained Bless My Stars, which added to the Grade 1 success of his Gareth van Zyl-trained Vernichey in 2019. 

He has now purchased a full-sister to Kommetdieding, who is one of seven horses in history to have won both the July and the Met.

The Elusive Fort filly out of the three time-winning Captain Al mare Adorable was knocked down to Kestorm Investments for R3.2 million.

She was cleverly named Kommetjie Storm after the small town on the west coast of the Cape Peninsula.

However, the word storm is an antonym to the calm temperament which Kommetdieding is known for and which his sister has also inherited.

Barbara Sanne of Oldlands Stud, who bred her, said, “She grew up very naturally, she was always pleasant, and it is such a wonderful thing to have a horse you don’t have to worry about. She was always in the right space.”

She is a magnificent specimen and it would not require a good eye to notice how well she walks and moves.

Alec Laird summed her up well, as revealed by Sanne, “A face like an angel and a bum like a barmaid.”

There will be a lot of fans anticipating the career of this exciting individual, whose price came as no surprise even if it outstripped the price paid for her brother (R55,000) by a cool R3.145 million!