Top two-year-olds to go under the hammer
The TBA will be hosting the National Two Year Old Sale in Gosforth Park, next month.
One of South Africa’s most successful, and best-value-for-money, thoroughbred auctions is set to take place at the TBA (Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association) complex in Gosforth Park, next month.
The 2017 National Two Year Old Sale will be held over two days next month, with sales taking place on August 17 and 18.
Trading, on both days, will commence at 11am, with lots 1 – 250 selling on the Thursday and the remainder of the catalogue the following day.
The Two Year Old Sale is a regular and consistent producer of high class horses (usually purchased at bargain basement prices), with recent Listed Champion Juvenile Cup winner Kimberley Star – the latest stakes winner – to have emerged from this sale.
Among the best horses sold off in past National Two-Year-Old Sales include recent Equus Champions Bela-Bela and Talktothestars, as well as G1 winners All Afire (Golden Slipper), Asylum Seeker (Golden Slipper), Fez (Premier’s Champion Stakes), Rock Opera (Allan Robertson Fillies Championship), Jackson (Investec Cape Derby, Champions Cup, Daily News 2000), Lyrical Linda (Garden Province Stakes), Talahatchie (Premier’s Champion Stakes) and Zaitoon (SA Fillies Classic), to name a few.
Graduates of this sale have also enjoyed memorable big-race success overseas, with the likes of Cerise Cherry, J J The Jet Plane, River Jetez and champion The Apache all representing South Africa overseas with great distinction.
This year, two outstanding past graduates of this sale will themselves be represented by lots on the Two Year Old Sale – with triple G1 winner Jackson (a R1 000 000 purchase from the 2010 sale) and first past the post in the G1 Arlington Million and Equus Champion The Apache (that cost a mere R90 000 at the 2009 sale).
South Africa’s top sires are all represented at the 2017 National Two-Year-Old Sale, with the likes of Captain Al, Dynasty, Gimmethegreenlight, Silvano, Trippi and Var all handsomely represented with smart drafts at next month’s auction.
Stallions with first South African two-year-olds on offer at the sale, include the abovementioned pair, namely Jackson and The Apache, as well as the likes of Ato, Duke Of Marmalade, Master Of My Fate, Noble Tune, Pomodoro, Potala Palace, Redoute’s Promise, and Where’s That Tiger.
The catalogue for the 2017 National Two Year Old Sale can be viewed online at www.tba.co.za
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