The Klawervlei Stud-based Kommetdieding being paraded at last year’s Stallion Day (Picture: Klawervlei)
The People’s Champion’s First Yearlings Catch The Eye!
Sarah Whitelaw
The charismatic Kommetdieding has made a solid start with his first yearlings selling this year.
At the Cape Yearling Sale, Kommetdieding had seven yearlings gross R1.23 million, with his top lot being the colts out of Manousckas Beaut and Second Voice who made R250 000 apiece.
Black Minnaloushe mare Manousckas Beaut is a winning granddaughter of G1 Empress Club Stakes winner Fading Light, while Second Voice is a daughter of champion sprinter Captain Of All, which makes her Kommetdieding colt closely inbred to Captain Al.
At the Premier Yearling Sale, 15 Kommetdieding yearlings made R4.175 million and averaged R278 333.
His top priced lot sold off at the Premier Sale was a R900 000 filly (Lot 115) out of Sylvie.
That filly was knocked down to Antony Beck. From the family of champion fillies Mother Russia, Nother Russia and Gimme A Nother, the filly in question is a half-sister to three stakes winners including 2024 G2 Betway Joburg Spring F and M Challenge winner Celtic Rumours.
Kommetdieding had just four yearlings on offer at the recently concluded National Yearling Sale.
His National Sale quartet was headed by a filly (Lot 85 – pictured below) out of Limpopo River, who was knocked down to Sean Tarry Racing Stables for R425 000. A half-sister to 2020 G1 Gold Medallion third No Laying Up, this filly is out of a full-sister to Zambezi River, winner of his first three starts including the 2014 Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes.
This Kommetdieding filly went for R425,000 at Nationals sold to Sean Tarry (Picture: BSA)
An exceptional racehorse, Kommetdieding won the Klawervlei Farm Sale race on his only start at two.He went on to prove himself among the best of his generation at three, four and five, during a career which saw Kommetdieding earn more than R4.255 million.
When he won the 2021 G1 Vodacom Durban July, Kommetdiedingding defeated the G1 winners Linebacker, Got The Greenlight, Do It Again, Rainbow Bridge, Belgarion and She’s A Keeper.
Kommetdieding’s 2022 G1 World Sports Betting Cape Town Met win came at the expense of such champions as Jet Dark and Do It Again.
From the powerful Sadler’s Wells male line, Kommetdieding is a son of the Fort Wood sired champion and high-class sire Elusive Fort. His dam Adorable, a Captain Al three-parts sister to triple G1 winner Captain America, ran second, to the brilliant Gibraltar Blue, in the Listed Gardenia Handicap over 1000m, and she is directly descended in female line from the hugely influential mare Paradoxical. Among the latter’s numerous important descendants are La Troienne, arguably the most influential broodmare in the stud book.
Kommetdieding’s legendary broodmare sire Captain Al continues to make his mark on the stud book, with his sire sons including such hot stallions as Erik The Red, Malmoos and One World, with Captain Al mares also firing on all cylinders. This season alone, Captain Al ranks as the broodmare sire of nine individual stakes winners, including such top-class performers as Double Grand Slam, Gimme What I Want, Good Day Sunshine, and Questioning.
Captain Al is also the damsire of the very exciting Turn It Up, an impressive winner of this season’s Race Coast Sales Slipper and Roland Garros, winner of the same day’s Race Coast Sales Big Cap.
With his pedigree appearing to suit a large percentage of the South African broodmare band, Kommetdieding looks poised to make his mark at stud.
