Hopes And Dreams Stud is a relatively new farm, and an exciting addition to the Cape stud farm ranks. Situated just outside Wellington, Hopes And Dreams Stud is home to a top-class band of mares, and, more importantly perhaps, blue blooded stallion Frantastic. A son of legendary racehorse and sire Frankel, the regally bred Frantastic is a full-brother to four time G1 winner Cracksman, the sire of unbeaten Arc winning champion Ace Impact, among others. He won at 2 and 3 years of age and twice from seven runs, over 1600m and 2000m respectively, before incurring a career-ending injury. He won on the all-weather and on turf, proving his versatility. He could have been anything had he stayed in training. The lightly raced Frantastic, who also hails from the family of legendary sires Nasrullah and Royal Charger, proved popular in his first season at stud, when the son of Frankel covered a high-quality book in his first season at stud, and he looks to be an exciting young sire in the making.
Hopes And Dreams Stud will be eight strong at this year’s Cape Yearling Sale, with this draft made up of yearlings sired by Buffalo Bill Cody, Canford Cliffs, Erik The Red, Heavenly Blue, Horizon, Royal Mo and Talk Of The Town.
The latter, already sire of smart fillies Famous Lady and Miss Lia, has two lots on offer including a filly (Lot 32), very closely related to Var’s high-class son Vars Vicky.
Buffalo Bill Cody has made a cracking start to his stud career, and the son of Redoute’s Choice is represented here by a colt (Lot 9) out of a winning daughter of Listed Betting World Laisserfaire Stakes winner Joshua’s Mistress. This colt hails from a top-class family with his numerous high-class relatives including the July winning champion Heavy Metal among others.
Other appealing lots to be found here include the Erik The Red filly (Lot 42) from the family of Breeders’ Cup winning fillies Caledonia Road and Moira, and the Canford Cliffs filly (Lot 97) whose dam is a three time winning daughter of Vercingetorix.
This draft can be found in Block B at the SARDA Centre.