Picture: Lot 94, a Narrow Creek Stud-bred Rafeef colt out of the Gr 1 SA Fillies Sprint winner Singforafa (Potala Palace)
After the first day of the Race Coast Premier Yearling Sale the top lot was a Narrow Creek Stud-bred Rafeef colt, who is the first foal of the smart Gr 1 SA Fillies Sprint-winning Potala Palace mare Singforafa, and he was purchased by the Hong Kong Jockey Club for R4 million.
There were 19 seven figure yearlings on day one (lot 1 to Lot 143) and a notable statistic is that three of them were by the new Drakenstein Stud-based sire Jet Dark, whose 11 lots averaged R 775,000.
Vercingetorix had five seven figure lots and was the top sire by average at R1,297,222, although the single lot of British sire Cracksman went for R1,5 million.
Rafeef was the top sire by aggregate with his 15 lots fetching a total of R 17,650,000 for an average of R 1,176,667.
Kommetdieding’s first Sales day saw him average R 355,000 for five lots with a high of R900,000 for a half-sister to the speedsters Celtic Rumours, Almond Sea and Sarah.
A notable improver was The United States, whose five lots averaged R535,000 with a high of R1.6 million for a filly out of an Oratorio half-sister to Via Africa.
