Revitalised De Kock Team One Of The Beneficiaries Of Triple 8 Clothing Largesse At CRS Summer Sale

Chestnut Verse, Thursday's topper | Cape Racing Sales

Lot 87, a son of Vercingetorix (SAf) and Chestnuts N Pearls (SAf) (Horse Chestnut {SAf}) already named Chestnut Verse (SAf), was the headline horse on Thursday's Cape Racing Sales Summer Sale. Sold to Laurence Wernars's Triple 8 Clothing for R2.2 million (£96,383/€114,271/$119,098), the colt was offered by Drakenstein Stud. His dam won the G1 Golden Slipper at Greyville, and is a half-sister to Golden Dawn (SAf) (Goldmark {SAf}), who won at listed level.

A Vercingetorix filly, Proud Mary (SAf) (lot 66), also went to Triple 8 Clothing, who paid a flat R2 million. Avontuur Estate consigned the daughter of Grade 2 winner Varikate (SAf) (Var). The bay is a half-sister to South African Champion Sprinter Thunderstruck (SAf) (Rafeef {Aus}), a two-time Grade 1 hero. She is bound for the revitalised yard of father-son team Mike and Mathew de Kock.

Wernars's organisation ended up signing for a dozen yearlings for an aggregate of R11,050,000 (£484,084/€573,945/$598,198).

Rounding out the top three was Final Say (SAf) (Trippi) (lot 55) at R1.8 million. Part of the Drakenstein Stud draft, the filly caught the eye of Jonathan Snaith. Her granddam is Captain's Lover (SAf) (Captain Al {SAf}), the South African Champion 3-Year-Old Miler in 2007/2008.

The de Kock duo were in action for R1.5 million buy World Attraction (SAf) (One World {SAf}) (lot 29), which they bought in partnership with Form Bloodstock. Offered by Winterbach Stud, agent, the bay colt is out of G3 Champagne Stakes heroine Major Attraction (SAf) (Vercingetorix {SAf}). This is the same clan as South African Horse of the Year, Champion Older Male and Middle Distance Horse Futura (SAf) (Dynasty {SAf}).

Overall, 74 lots sold of 86 offered (86%) for a gross of R46,355,000 (£2,030,745/€2,407,715/$2,509,639). The average was R626,419 (£27,440/€32,533/$33,912) and the median was R500,000 (£21,902/€25,967/$27,068).

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