Picture: Gimmethegreenlight upon his arrival at Varsfontain Stud in 2012
Gimmethegreenlight was the champion sire for the third time this year and One World was the Outstanding sire for his record-breaking freshman season. Howver, the lattter award could just have well have gone to Gimmethegreenlight as well, because for the second season in a row he did what had never been done since at leat 1953 and perhaps ever – he was the leading sire, the leading sire of three-year-olds and the leading sire of two-year-olds.
Equus Award-winning writer Charl Pretorius wrote about the great Varsontein-based sire in his Off The Record colum this weekend.
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