Brave Waam is a progressive sort who can continue to be followed (JC Photos)
Hawwaam is beginning to make an impact as a sire and is following in the footsteps of his six-times champion sire Silvano.
Hawaam’s progeny do not look to be precocious and they improve with age and most of them will likely enjoy going over ground, although there will be the odd classy speedster too. That was the general pattern of Silvano’s progeny.
Reigning Champion Sire Vercingetorix is also by Silvano and looks likely to outdo him, but simply because he is a phenomenon who produces champions at all ages and over all distances.
Hawwaam has only had two stakes winners, but as his first crop have now just turned four bigger things can probably now be expected of him.
Hawwaam was not a straight forward horse and was famously scratched before the start of both the SA Derby and Durban July. Some of his progeny seem to have inherited his quirks.
One of his promising progeny is the Dean Kannemeyer-trained gelding Hah Lah Lah, who has won four out of five starts and is already rated 108. He is unbeaten in three starts on turf and has won over trips from 1200m to 1400m. Big things can be expected of him this season as a four-year-old son of Hawwaam who has only raced five times.
Another Hawwaam who has shown a big engine lately and is progressive is the Tony Peter-trained Brave Waam.
In his penultimate start over 1450m at the Vaal Classic track he was used up a lot early to get into the box seat and yet stayed on well to just fend off the challengers.
He proved that to be a good performance on Saturday, because this time he was well draw in three over 1450m on the Turffontein Inside track and was able to get to the front comparatively comfortably and this time he won comfortably by 1,90 lengths, despite being off a three point higher mark of 82.
This four-year-old has won three of his last four starts and is the only horse to have beaten the exciting prospect Mission To Mars, doing it in the maidens. The latter came from way back and that day and overtook the rest of the field, but could not fetch Brave Waam. It had looked to be a case of Mission To Mars mis-timing his run, but in fact there was six lengths back to the third horse Periodic Table and seven lengths back to the fourth horse Silver Comet, both of whom won next time out.
So, the Brave Waam formline is one to take note of.
Glen Kotzen won on Friday night with the three-year-old Hawwaam gelding Danny Atlas, who enjoyed the step up to 1600 and beat a well regarded sort in Dreadnought.
The two stakes-winning Hawwaams are the Weichong Marwing-trained Diogenes and the Tony Peter-trained Perfect Miracle.
Diogenes was the first of his stakes winners and fittingly his stakes win was in the Listed Hawwaam Stakes over 2000m, which used to be called the Derby Trial. He finished fourth in the SA Derby but has not done much since. However, he could debelop into a useful stayer.
Perfect Miracle won both the Gr 3 WSB Sycamore Sprint over 1160m and the Gr 2 TAB Camellia Stakes over the same course and distance. In her last start she finished a 2,95 length fifth in the Gr 1 SA Fillies Sprint. She has substance and won the Camellia Stakes from the usually unfavourable draw of one out of nine, so should be one to follow in her four-year-old career.
In fact Hawwaams in general should be watched as he looks to be a sire with plenty of promise.
