Avontuur Estate bred the highest priced lot on the Sale but also let one go for R100,000, a Futura filly who is a half-sister to the above filly Heirloom, who is a three-time winner who has given her owners a lot of fun. (JC Photos).
It is always telling when a trainer goes back to the well and it would not have escaped watchers’ notice that Robyn Klassen added a third progeny of Avontuur’s mare A Woman’s Will to her yard when landing an Avontuur-bred Futura filly for just R100,000 at the BSA National Yearling Sale on Day 1.
The filly is a half-sister to Oratorio filly Heirloom and Master Of My Fate filly It’s Her Way, who are both trained by Klaasen, and she is also a half-sister to the Gareth van Zyl-trained filly Music Is Life.
None of the three are great shakes, but Heirloom has won three races and placed nine times in 26 starts for earnings of R295,625 and It’s Her Way has run 13 times for a win and seven places for earnings of R128,062 and has been thought highly of enough to have been entered in two Graded events.
It’s Her Way runs next week Thursday over 1200m at the Vaal and should earn another cheque as she has only missed a cheque twice in her career.
The Futura filly was not the cheapest lot on the Sale.
The cheapest was a Cornerstone Stud-bred Chimichuri Run colt out of a Gimmethegreenlight mare who is a full-sister to the useful Tail Of The Comet, who won the Cape Racing Sales Ready To Run Stakes by 4,25 lengths to make it three wins from his first four starts and he subsequently started odds on favourite for the Gr 2 Cape Punters Cup, where he finished fifth. He subsequently lost his way, but he was an exciting runner at one stage.
Chimichuri Run if of course a son of Trippi, who had his last ever lot at the BSA Nationals on Day 1.
The Bloomhill Stud-bred Trippi colt fetched R300,000 and was bought by none other than Greg Bortz.
Bortz equalled the record for purchase price of R9 million when buying a Vercingetorix half-brother to Snow Pilot at last month’s Cape Racing Sales March Sale Day 1 and has been taking it easy at this Sale with just one other purchase, a Drakenstein Master Of My Fate colt which he got for R325,000.
