Quality, not quantity, dictates terms for Benmarne Stud’s consignment for this year’s National Sale.

The Botha family will be offering a quality quartet of yearlings at the two day auction, with Benmarne offering a filly by Querari and three colts by Heavenly Blue. All four yearlings hail from high-class families, and Arne Botha is understandably pleased with what he is bringing to the sale.

Arne had the following comments to make about his four yearlings:
Lot 178: Love You Lots f Querari -Love From Al
Very nice, well balanced filly with good legs. Good walker.
Bred on the same Querari/Love From Al cross as graded stakes winners Questioning, Head Honcho and Kampala Campari, Love You Lots is out of a twice winning daughter of Captain Al. From one of the best families around, this filly hails from the same female line as breed shaping stallions Sadler’s Wells, Nureyev and Fairy King.
Lot 276: Sunny Creek c Heavenly Blue -She’s A Dragon
This is a nice quality, good sized colt, he has a nice length of rein with good legs.
By a G1 winning son of Snitzel, this colt is out of the G1 SA Fillies Classic third She’s A Dragon. This colt’s granddam is a winning full-sister to top Hong Kong sprinter Cerise Cherry, and this is the family of champion Battle Maiden, sired, like this colt’s granddam, by Goldkeeper.
Lot 279: Draupner c Heavenly Blue -Shield Maiden
Nice first produce, he is well related and good walker.
Lot 301: Blue Rock Paradise c Heavenly Blue -Stopthinkingofme
Nice colt, good legs, he will grow into a nice three-year-old.
This colt is out of a winning half-sister to the dam of G1 ATC Golden Rose winner In The Congo, who, like Heavenly Blue, was sired by Snitzel. This colt’s dam is a half-sister to multiple G1 winner and Equus Champion Via Africa, with the latter also the dam of top-class Australian filly Autumn Glow.

Benmarne’s National Sale draft can be found in Block B at the TBA Complex in Germiston.