This Kommetdieding filly was born at Prosper Stud at 9 p.m last Thursday (Picture: Supplied)
Kommetdieding’s first foal was fittingly born on the farm where he himself was born and raised and where he stands today, Klawervlei Stud.
That happened on August 6 and was a nice-sized colt out of the Listed-winning Silvano mare Silver Holly.
However, there was always going to be interest in the names of the colourfully-named Kommetdieding’s foals and the first to have a name applied for is a filly born at Prosper Stud at 21H00 last Thursday.
This filly is out of the one-time winner by Visionaire, Intuitive, who is a half-sister to the Listed winner She’s A Pippa (Var).
The name applied for by stud owner Jikkie de Wet is “Hierkomsy.”
A very good choice of name and for the benefit of those who do not understand Afrikaans it literally means “Here she comes”.
The best context for the phrase to be used would be in a race, where a horse or athlete is bearing down on the leaders and looking to be the winner i.e “Hier kom sy!” (“Here she comes!”)
However, “Hier Kom” is also associated in Afrikaans with the mighty South African rugby team through the popular Leon Schuster song “Hier kom die Bokke” (Hie’ Kommie Bokke).
Kommetdieding literally means “Come with the thing”, but the actual meaning was explained at the height of the horse’s fame by his owner Ashwin Reynolds.
He explained, “It is Afrikaans slang among the Cape Flats coloured community and it means ‘Bring it on’ as in ‘I’m not scared, bring it on.’”
Ashwin gave the horse his name after being challenged to do so by a friend one day over a couple of drinks.
It is a name that added to the horse’s legend.
Kommetdieding went from being a R55,000 purchase at a Klawervlei Farm Sale, to being trained by the small yard of father and daughter combination Harold Crawford and Michelle Rix, to becoming only the seventh horse in history to win both the Durban July and the Met.
