TOP 50 RACEHORSES IN SOUTH AFRICA

Pierre Jourdan
(Photo : OneAfrica/JC Photographics)

“NO WONDER THE LOG LOOKS LIKE IT DOES”

A glance at the National Breeders’ log tells its own story. The first five months of the current racing year has Summerhill already over the R8 million mark, just about enough to win the title in any prior year. Just this past week, Phumelela Gold issued a listing of the top 50 earners in the nation, and that pretty much explains the position. Of the top 50, no fewer than ten have Summerhill connections, through either the sire, the dam or both. Six of them are graduates of the Summerhill Ready To Run programme, including the mercurial 30-time hero, Hear The Drums. Ten out of fifty is as close as you get to 20% of the biggest winners of the season so far, and it’s all a reflection of great people, great land and the best upbringing of a racehorse known to mankind.

 TOP 50 RACEHORSES BY EARNINGS
1 AUGUST 2009 - 17 JANUARY 2010

Rank	Name	Runs	Wins	Win%	2nd	3rd	4th	Other	Stakes
1	ASLAN	3	1	33%	1	0	0	0	R1,217,000
2	MOTHER RUSSIA	4	3	75%	1	0	0	0	R990,750
3	MOKARO	3	2	67%	0	0	0	0	R875,000
4	PIERRE JOURDAN	4	3	75%	1	0	0	0	R874,425
5	NOORDHOEK FLYER (SNL)	4	2	50%	1	1	0	0	R727,250
6	POCKET POWER	2	2	100%	0	0	0	0	R680,000
7	FIELD FLOWER	7	3	43%	1	0	1	0	R552,000
8	MAGICAL	4	0	0%	2	1	0	0	R529,400
9	PHUNYUKA	7	2	29%	2	1	0	1	R499,900
10	CYBER CASE	7	4	57%	1	0	0	1	R455,120
11	CURVED BALL (AUS)	4	3	75%	0	0	1	0	R450,875
12	SEATTLE ICE (AUS)	7	2	29%	1	0	0	0	R437,550
13	KAPIL	3	1	33%	1	0	0	1	R395,000
14	FISANI	5	2	40%	1	0	2	0	R394,250
15	SPARKLING GEM	4	1	25%	3	0	0	0	R378,750
16	NOBLEWOOD	4	1	25%	1	2	0	0	R378,130
17	HAVASHA	6	3	50%	1	1	0	0	R363,800
18	ARABIAN MIST	5	2	40%	0	2	0	0	R360,400
19	GALILEO’S GALAXY	3	1	33%	2	0	0	0	R358,750
20	CAPTAIN SCOTT	4	1	25%	1	1	1	0	R325,000
21	RED RAKE	5	3	60%	1	1	0	0	R323,130
22	FORT VOGUE	5	2	40%	3	0	0	0	R320,380
23	SIDERA (AUS)	3	3	100%	0	0	0	0	R293,750
24	SURFIN ‘USA	5	2	40%	0	0	0	1	R278,125
25	FABIANI	3	1	33%	0	1	1	0	R277,500
26	RIVER JETEZ	4	2	50%	1	1	0	0	R272,510
27	HEAR THE DRUMS	5	5	100%	0	0	0	0	R268,750
28	MEET AT MALAMALA	5	1	20%	0	1	0	2	R261,100
29	CAPTAIN’S SECRET	4	2	50%	1	0	0	1	R247,330
30	THUNDER KEY	7	1	14%	2	0	1	0	R241,900
31	TICK TOCK	7	1	14%	4	0	1	0	R230,150
32	PAST MASTER	3	2	67%	0	1	0	0	R229,850
33	CALL OF ANGELS	5	4	80%	0	0	0	0	R221,875
34	QUEEN’S BAY	4	3	75%	0	0	0	1	R218,125
35	GALANTHUS	5	3	60%	1	1	0	0	R215,050
36	CAPTAIN’S GAL	4	2	50%	1	1	0	0	R213,125
37	THANKS JOHN	7	4	57%	1	1	0	0	R210,080
38	BILL OF RIGHTS	6	0	0%	2	1	0	0	R209,200
39	CASEY COOL	7	2	29%	3	1	1	0	R205,000
40	SANTA	4	1	25%	0	0	1	1	R203,125
41	APPLE PRINCESS	9	3	33%	1	1	1	2	R201,300
42	ORACY (NZ)	3	2	67%	0	0	0	1	R198,750
43	EIGHT STREET (AUS)	4	1	25%	0	0	0	1	R192,500
44	DANCE AT DAYLIGHT	3	2	67%	0	1	0	0	R192,380
45	STORM CROSSING	7	4	57%	0	0	0	1	R190,750
46	COOL SPENDER	7	2	29%	3	0	0	1	R189,375
47	POLAR MOON	5	3	60%	1	1	0	0	R186,500
48	MAHUBO	5	2	40%	2	0	1	0	R186,250
49	LA FOCE	7	3	43%	1	0	1	0	R186,005
50	SONIC BARRIER (AUS)	6	3	50%	0	2	0	1	R185,850

Phumelela Gold
Correct as at 17 January 2010

BELATED CHRISTMAS GIFT FOR DENNIS DRIER YARD

Dance At Daylight
(Photo : Gold Circle)

DANCE AT DAYLIGHT
CHRISTMAS HANDICAP (GR3) 2009

The Dennis Drier yard received a belated Christmas gift at Clairwood on Boxing Day when Dance At Daylight took victory in the Christmas Handicap (Grade 3) over 1600m.

Jumping from gate 15, jockey Alec Forbes positioned the son of Rambo Dancer a few lengths off the pace in sixth. Forced to race three-wide thoughout, and without cover for most of the trip, Forbes held off for as long as possible before asking Dance At Daylight for his best effort in the straight. The response came in abundance with the gelding quickening clear to win comfortably by two from Select The Star, Lion’s Blood and Dynamite Mike.

Assistant trainer Stuart Ferry was complimentary of the ride and acknowledged that Alec Forbes had built a good relationship with Dance At Daylight, knowing exactly what to do in the straight.

This victory takes Dance At Daylight’s race tally to 5 wins and 6 places from 17 starts and his earning to R424,880.

The five-year-old is one of 19 South African stakes winners sired by the Northern Dancer stallion Rambo Dancer, who commenced his stallion career in Britain before taking up stud duties here at Summerhill in 1996. Best known as the sire of Gr.1 hero Pick Six, Rambo Dancer died in 2005.

Dance At Daylight is the first foal of Norse Woman (Northern Guest), a winning half-sister to Warning Zone (Elliodor), the Equus champion juvenile filly of 2002, who subsequently became a stakes winner in the US. The mare’s last foal is a yearling filly by Kahal.

Grandam, War Women, who produced six winners from eight runners, is a half-sister to triple Gr.1 hero Record Edge (Sunny North) and to Gr.1 Gold Bowl victor Golden Peak (Peacetime). This is a branch of the Birch Brothers’ famed Drohsky family, from which descend the tough Cape Guineas hero Ocean City, Two Cities (Gr.2 Bull Brand International) and Tammany Hall (Gr.3 Republic Day Handicap).

Congratulations must go to Dance At Daylight’s breeder, Chris Saunders from Invermooi Stud, as well as to owners Miles Dally and Gary Harris. Credit must also be paid to War Woman’s breeders, retired High Court Judge Alan Magid and Benji Jonsson.