One World pictured at Drakenstein Stud (Picture: Drakenstein Stud)
Last season’s record-breaking freshman sire One World is fast becoming a sire phenomenon.
His progeny, the Vaughan Marshall-trained One Stripe, his stablemate All Out For Six and the Brett Crawford-trained Captain West, ran first, second and fourth in the Gr 2 Cape Punters Cup at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday and he had the first three home in the other stakes race at the meeting, the Listed WSB Sophomore Sprint, with the Marshall-trained Lion Rampart, the Candice Bass-Robinson-trained Kai Boy and the Greg Ennion-trained Miss World.
Furthermore, a Marshall-trained One World gelding called World Of Pleasure won a class 4 event on the day.
Marshall and One World thus had a treble together on the day.
One World has consequently overtaken Vercingetorix as the leading sire of three-year-olds this season.
One World is based at Drakenstein Stud, who bred both One Stripe and All Out For Six and they also bred World Of Pleasure.
Marshall trained One World’s father Captain Al, whom nobody expected to become a champion sire of legendary status operating out of Klawervlei Stud. He did become both of those, plus a champion broodmare sire and he is now well on his way to becoming a fine sire of sires.
One World has also outstripped expectations.
He smashed his father’s freshman sire record of number of winners and equalled his father’s overall record for number of winning two-year-olds in a season. He could have done even better if there had not been so much rain in the Cape at the end of last season.
One World’ progeny are now training on to be fine three-year-olds.
The seven-time champion sire Jet Master became champion sire for the first time when his first crop were only four-year-olds. One World could become the next SA-bred to achieve this feat.
The boom sire Vercingetorix has been ousted by his olders like Gimmethegreenlight and by his own sire Silvano to date, but this season might be Vercingetorix’s only opportunity to win the title. One World’s progeny are shaping up so well that he might sweep all before him when he has three racing crops on the ground.
The great Vincent O’Brien made a prediction that was to set up Coolmore as the best stud operation in the world. He predicted great things as a stallion for Northern Dancer and his theory was a horse can not pass on freakiness but can pass on courage. Northern Dancer’s courage was emphasised by the fact that his Kentucky Derby win, like many of his other wins, was by a narrow margin. He was also a small horse. What he lacked in size he made up for with heart. O’Briens predictions were correct as Northern Dancer became the most important thoroughbred sire of the 20th century and saturates the breed today. He and his descendants have also helped Coolmore become possibly the best breeding operation in thoroughbred history.
Captain Al won the Cape Guineas from draw 16 of 16, despite being a sprint-miler type, and One World was able to keep the opposition at bay time and time again after leading or being handy.
They both clearly possessed courage and it is being passed on.
One Stripe, for example, raced without cover throughout in the Gr 2 Cape Punters Cup and yet won with plenty in hand. That likely means he has the temperament to respond to his jockey, whether it be to relax or to quicken, and he has the class and the will to win as well.
