Avontuur Estate continues to live up to its billing for producing fine wine and fast horses. The latest Avontuur bred to impress is exciting two-year-old Dreamworld.
The latter was all the rage prior to making his debut at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth earlier this month, and he duly lived up to expectations with a fluent victory.
Avontuur will be bringing a superb draft to the 2025 National Yearling Sale, with this string not only including yearlings sired by the likes of Gimmethegreenlight, Rafeef and Vercingetorix but also horses from some of the finest families in the South Africa stud book.
One colt bound to prove popular is the blue-blooded October Rush (197), a colt by top sire Rafeef out of the wonderful racemare and producer Miss October. Winner of five races including the G3 Tommy Hotspur Handicap, the regally bred Miss October has produced six winners, with this tally headed by a pair of G1 winners in the form of champion Tempting Fate and 2024 South African Fillies Sprint queen October Morn.
Pocket Power’s G1 J&B Met winning full-sister River Jetez has proved as successful at stud as she was on the racetrack. The former globetrotting star is represented here by Ebb And Flow (Lot 249), a colt by outstanding sire Vercingetorix. Safe to say that Ebb And Flow, a half-brother to both G1 Computaform Sprint winner Rivarine and G3 Kenilworth Fillies Nursery victress Delta Queen, is a colt with a stallion’s pedigree!
Vercingetorix looks set to be crowned Champion Sire this season, and the son of Silvano has another well bred yearling on offer in the form of Zodiac (Lot 298). This filly is out of East Cape champion Star Burst Galaxy, whose G3 Victress Stakes winning half-sister Star Express (sired, like Vercingetorix, by Silvano) produced the exported Equus Champion Bless My Stars. Further back, this is the family of top sprinter Bull Valley, as well as champion Model Man.
Champion Hawwaam, like Vercingetorix, has two lots on offer here, including Maximum Effort (Lot 246), a beautifully bred half-sister to two black type horses notably dual Listed Umngeni Handicap victor Pray For Rain, while Cubano (Lot 195) is a colt by reigning champion sire Gimmethegreenlight and he is a half-brother to Listed East Cape Breeders Stakes winner Carioca.
This consignment can be found in Block C at the TBA Complex in Germiston.
