Son of Western Winter
Bay 2009, 16HH, To Stud 2015
Stud Fee: R20,000 (R5,000 nom; R15,000 guaranteed live foal)
Son of Western Winter
Bay 2009, 16HH, To Stud 2015
Stud Fee: R20,000 (R5,000 nom; R15,000 guaranteed live foal)
THE NEW MASTERPIECE
In the Racing game, class is an obsession. The only cure for it, is to get a bit of Capetown Noir.
Capetown Noir by Western Winter
Capetown Noir by Western Winter
This is only the Overture. The Opera begins next season.
L'Ormarins Queen's Plate (Grade 1)
Cape Guineas (Grade 1)
At Two:
1st – by 2 lengths in open company on debut.
“The best juvenile I’ve sat on this season!” – Anton Marcus
At Three:
1st – defeating Stakes-winning sprinter, The West Is Wide
1st – defeating multiple Group 1 performer, Run For It
1st – Cape Premier Guineas (Gr.1); defeating Gr.1 performers King Of Pain, Black Toga, Sanshaawes, Love Struck, Paterfamilias and Tevez
1st – Investec Cape Derby (Gr.1); beating Gr.1 performers Paterfamilias, Dynamic, Abercrombie, Ze Kaiser etc.
1st – Byerley Turk (Gr.3)
2nd – Selangor Cup (Gr.2); beaten a nose by L'Ormarins Queen’s Plate (Gr.1) winner, King Of Pain
2nd – KRA Guineas (Gr.2); beaten a nose by multiple Gr.1 winner, Vercingetorix
3rd – Daily News 2000 (Gr.1); beaten a neck by multiple Gr.1 winner, Vercingetorix
At Four:
1st – Matchem Stakes (Gr.3)
1st – L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate (Gr.1); defeating Gr.1 performers Jackson, Yorker, King Of Pain, No Worries, Jet Explorer, Whiteline Fever, Red Ray etc.
2nd – Horse Chestnut Stakes (Gr.1); beaten a nose by multiple Group 1 winner Yorker after veering across the track
3rd – Drill Hall Stakes (Gr.2); to multiple Group 1 winner Beach Beauty
Capetown Noir by Western Winter
Capetown Noir by Western Winter
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Capetown Noir by Western Winter
Capetown Noir by Western Winter
CAPETOWN NOIR
Son of Western Winter
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Capetown Noir by Western Winter
Capetown Noir by Western Winter
We all know things are tight, tighter than they’ve been in a very long time. And if it weren’t for the expectation of the normalisation of our export protocols in the reasonably near future, the breeding landscape would be a bleak place indeed. With that in mind, we’ve spent a good deal of time pleading the case of broodmare owners across the board with our stallion principals, and they’re not only sympathetic but they’re as determined as we are to play their part in contributing towards the future viability of our customers’ operations.
Nureyev was bred by Seth Hancock at Claiborne Farm. Like his father and grandfather before him, Hancock had an impressive stallion roster of his own to choose from at a time when his barns were decorated by the likes of Mr. Prospector, Nijinsky, Secretariat, Round Table, the former South African champion Hawaii and Forli, but also like his ancestors, he acknowledged a good horse on another farm’s roster. Nureyev’s mother, Special, who was bred to Northern Dancer in 1976
For the time being, the KZN Racing Awards for 2016 were concluded on Friday evening with a spritely affair from Gold Circle in the cavernous Ilanga room at one of Durban and Solly Kerzner’s oldest landmarks, the Elangeni.
Summerhill Stud CEO Mick Goss presents the farm's stallions standing for the 2016/17 breeding season.
With the word “plagiarism “very much in vogue in American politics at the moment, let me start with an acknowledgment: the article you are reading is the work of our old friend, Andrew Caulfied, one of the foremost authorities on bloodstock and pedigree analysis, and a regular contributor to the world’s most widely-read e-daily, the Thoroughbred Daily News.
Capetown Noir’s first four sires were all national champions. He ran like he knew it. His pedigree carries three strains of Northern Dancer. The scenario is typical of Sadler’s Wells, Nureyev and Lyphard.
The day after South Africa's most prestigious race, the Group 1 Vodacom Durban July, was captured by Australian-bred The Conglomerate at Greyviille Racecourse on July 2, racing journalists from nine countries joined breeders and racetrack officials to raise a toast at Summerhill Stud in Mooi River, KwaZulu-Natal.
The old adage “when the going gets tough, the tough get going”, has never been truer. Breeding racehorses is as competitive now as it’s ever been, which means that to play a winning hand, you need to hold the aces. All of them.
Capetown Noir is the complete package. Equine Royalty: The son of an Emperor, out of a Broodmare of the Year from a Guineas-winning daughter of the leading broodmare sire of all time. The “X Factor” Racehorse: Exceptional Juvenile; Dual Classic winner and Champion Miler at Three; L’Ormarins Queen's Plate (Gr.1) champion at four. *Over-subscribed first season.
Guineas hero, Derby laureate and Queen's Plate champion, Capetown Noir, has his first representatives at the Cape Premier Yearling sale. Carbon copies of the original.