Breeders comment:

“Big, Scopey, Balanced, Good Walking filly!”

Lot 152

Sea The Stars granddaughter hails from a great filly family

SA Nursery winner Sun Gleam left behind a potent legacy, with a number of Sun Gleam’s daughters and granddaughters making their mark on the South African stud book.
Herself the dam of high-class stakes winners Demain, Melrose and New Dawn, Sun Gleam also ranks as the third dam of both G1 Garden Province Stakes winner Petronia and G1 winning speedball Fuzzy Rag.

Another descendant of Sun Gleam to make her mark on both the racecourse, and at stud, was Helenita. Out of a great granddaughter of Sun Gleam, Helenita was a top-class racemare who won six races including the G1 Stuttafords Cup. At stud, Helenita threw ten winners including G1 Cape Argus Guineas winning filly Little Ballerina and G2 (now G1) Majorca Stakes winner Trojan Belle. The latter went on to become a high-class broodmare herself, with Trojan Belle producing G2 Umkhomazi Stakes winner Buran as well as G1 Thekwini Stakes runner up Ice Belle.

Riverton Stud will be offering another exciting filly descended in female line from the prolific Sun Gleam in the form of a Quasillo filly out of the Captain Al mare Heliane.

Heliane, whose third dam is Helenita, is a full-sister to the stakes placed Captain Dino and she has already produced five winners, led by G3 Godolphin Barb Stakes third place finisher High Voltage (sired by Quasillo’s half-brother Querari), and smart performers Thunder Master and Captain Tik Tok.

Heliane’s champion sire Captain Al, whose progeny include current sire sensation One World as well as the Riverton bred champion Captain Of All, has become an exceptional broodmare sire. The son of Al Mufti was South Africa’s Leading Broodmare Sire in both 2022-2023 and 2023-2024, with Captain Al broodmare sire of 13 black type winners, who won 17 stakes races, in 2023-2024 alone.
The ever growing list of top-class performers produced by Captain Al mares headed by champions Princess Calla, and Sandringham Summit, as well as G1 World Sports Betting Cape Town Met/G1 Vodacom Durban July winning sire Kommetdieding, the Riverton Stud bred G1 winner Potent Power, and Proceed and Snow Pilot. While Proceed won the G1 Gold Medallion in 2024, Snow Pilot captured last season’s G1 Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas.

Quasillo, whose progeny, from a very limited number of runners,  include G2 Zulu Kingdom Explorer Golden Slipper and G3 Strelitzia Stakes winning filly Ameena, was sired by Sea The Stars, one of the greatest thoroughbreds of the century.
Beaten just once in nine starts, Sea The Stars won all of the G1 stanjames.com 2000 Guineas, G1 Investec Derby, G1 Coral-Eclipse, G1 Juddmonte International Stakes, G1 Tattersalls Millions Irish Champion Stakes and G1 Qatar Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe in 2009.He was officially rated the best horse in the world in 2009, with a rating of 136, while esteemed publication Timeform gave him a rating of 140.

Sea The Stars has proved just as potent at stud, having sired more than 120 stakes winners including champions Baaeed, Harzand, Hukum, Star Catcher, Stradivarius, and Taghrooda, as well as the increasingly successful stallion Sea The Moon.

Breeders comment:

“Big, Strong, High-Quality colt that exudes confidence!”

Lot 240

William Longsword colt hails from a family of champions

Captain Al’s G1 Cape Guineas winning son William Longsword enjoyed an excellent season in 2023-2024. The half-brother to G1 winner and G1 producer Real Princess ended the season in seventh place on the General Sires List, with William Longsword runners winning 113 races last season while earning in excess of R12.952 million in prize money.
William Longsword’s star performers last season included top sprinters Dyce (G1 World Pool Cape Flying Championship, G3 New Turf Carriers Merchants, Listed Golden Loom Handicap) and Rulership (G3 Betway Lebelo Sprint), Listed Secretariat Stakes hero Sabre Strike and classy gelding William Iron Arm. The latter finished third in both the G1 TAB SA Classic and G2 TAB Gauteng Guineas, with William Iron Arm having already earned more than R400 000 in prize money.

William Longsword also came up with some eye catching two-year-old winners in 2023-2024 including Miss Scaletta, a winner of two of just three starts, feature race contender Commanding, and the useful Golden Chandelier.

Riverton Stud, who bred William Longsword’s very smart son Melech among others, will be offering a very well bred William Longsword colt (Lot 240) at the upcoming August Two Year Old Sale.

The colt is out of the lightly raced mare On High, herself a daughter of the regally bred Jet Master mare Sundays Sister. The latter, herself a dual winner, was produced by the outstanding Al Mufti mare Laptop Lady, dam of ten runners, and ten winners. Laptop Lady produced five black type horses, headed by globetrotting Equus Champion Jay Peg. Jay Peg was South Africa’s Equus Champion 3YO Male Classic Horse of 2007 and won eight of 13 starts in South Africa including both the G1 Bloodstock SA Cape  Guineas and G1 Investec Derby. Sent overseas, Jay Peg proved to be a world-class horse, winning both the G1 Dubai Duty Free and G1 Singapore Airlines International Cup.
Among the numerous top-class international horses beaten by Jay Peg were Archipenko, Bullish Luck, Darjina, Finsceal Beo and Vodka.

Jay Peg’s dam Laptop Lady also produced graded stakes winners Barrack Street (G3 Protea Stakes) and Cyber Case (G3 Lebelo Sprint), as well as the classy Epona, victorious in both the Listed Jamaica Handicap and Listed East Coast Handicap.

Further back, this is also the family of G1 winning champion Kochka, as well as such graded stakes winners Cat And The Moon, Dash For Gretna, Epsom Girl, Gimme A Shot, Lucky Find, Twilight Moon, and Whiteline Fever.

Laptop Lady is herself directly descended in female line from the the hugely influential mare Frillery, whose numerous high-class descendants include champion Silver Spoon and G1 winners Catinca, Silver Buck, State Dinner and Belmont Stakes winner Counterpoint.

The colt on sale is inbred to July runner up and former champion South African sire Al Mufti, with this pattern having already produced such graded stakes winners as Flash Drive and Hot Affair (both of whom were sired by Jay Peg!)

As Agent

Breeders comment:

“Quality head with a kind eye, strong looking filly with great depth of girth. Forward type with substance and should come to hand early.”

Lot 154

Captain Of All filly sports a classy pedigree

Classy galloper Captain Lannister showed great promise on the racetrack. In a brief career, the gelding won or placed in eight of 11 starts and earned more than R370 000 in stakes. Captain Lannister, who won from 1000m to 1450m, put up arguably the best performance of his career when running third, beaten just over a length in the 2022 G1 World Sports Betting SA Classic. In finishing third in the SA Classic, Captain Lannister accounted for a number of top-class performers notably graded stakes winners Aragosta and William Robertson as well as the very classy galloper Zeus.
Also fourth in the G1 Gold Medallion at two, Captain Lannister put up another smart effort when running G1 Premiers Champion Stakes winner Sentbydestiny to under two lengths when runner up over 1450 metres.

Captain Lannister, a son of the Riverton Stud bred champion and triple G1 winner Captain Of All, is one of three winners produced by the three time winning Western Winter mare Hidden Nest. The latter, a three-parts sister to the Western Winter sired Listed Racing Association Stakes/Listed East Cape Guineas winner Autumn Glory, also ranks the dam of seven time winner Two Guns (by Oracy) as well as the winner Blazing Rebel (by Rebel King).

The blue-blooded Hidden Nest was produced by G2 Gold Circle Oaks third and three time winning Deneuve, herself a daughter of champion sire Badger Land and dual G1 winner Please Be True.

Please Be True was a top-class racemare, whose seven career wins included triumphs in both the G1 Germiston November Handicap and Gosforth Park Fillies & Mares Challenge, with Please Be True a half-sister to the dam of G1 Cape Flying Championship winner Best Of The Best.

Further back, this is also the family of such stars as July winning champion Royal Chalice, the G1 winning full siblings Nania and Red Ray (both sired by Western Winter), and Guineas winning sire Bushmanland to name a few.

Riverton Stud, as Agent, will be offering a full-sister to Captain Lannister (Lot 154), in the form of Captain’s Pride, at this year’s August Two Year Old Sale.

Captain’s Pride is bred on a similar cross to all of dual Equus Champion, and five time G1 winner, Carry On Alice, G1 Forus Cape Guineas winner Tap O’ Noth and promising young sire Erik The Red, with all three horses sired by Captain Al (sire of Captain Of All) out of daughters of Western Winter.

At the time of writing, Western Winter mares had produced more than 60 stakes winners with this tally including such G1 winners as Past Master (Equus Champion), Good Traveller (Equus Champion), and Make It Snappy (G1 World Sports Betting Cape Fillies Guineas/G1 Cartier Paddock Stakes).

Breeders comment:

“Epitome of Athleticism, Scope and Muscle. Very imposing, well grown filly with good reign, girth and a great attitude.”

Lot 278 

​Master Of My Fate filly set to impress

There is no denying that Jet Master horse Master Of My Fate is a consistently successful sire. Already sire of G1 winners Sentbydestiny, Zarina and Equus Champion Tempting Fate, Master Of My Fate enjoyed another good season in 2023-2024.
Master Of My Fate ended last season fourth on the South African General Sires List, with his progeny winning 150 races in 2023-2024 and earning more than R15.588 million in prize money. The sire was responsible for four black type winners of seven stakes races in South Africa in 2023-2024, with his flagbearers including Atticus Finch (G3 Betway Victory Moon Stakes), Joy And Peace (TAB East Cape Derby, East Cape Oaks), and Princess Izzy (Sweet Chestnut Stakes).

His daughter Splicethemainbrace was unbeaten in five starts last season and won all of the Listed East Cape Fillies Nursery, Listed East Cape Nursery, and Listed Lady’s Slipper Stakes, with another Master Of My Fate filly, My Soul Mate, finishing second in the 2024 G2 Wilgerbosdrift Bridget Oppenheimer SA Oaks.

Master Of My Fate has built up a fine record as a sire of high-class fillies, with Master Of My Fate’s growing list of top-class daughters including such graded stakes winners as Basadi Faith, Indi Anna, Lady Of Power, Love Is A Rose, and Pretty Betty, as well as the aforementioned G1 winners Sentbydestiny and Zarina.

Riverton Stud, as agent, will be offering the well bred Master Of My Fate filly Trip Of Faith (Lot 278) at this month’s August Two Year Old Sale.

Trip Of Faith, whose first three dams were sired by Trippi, Royal Academy and Damascus respectively, is out of the twice winning Trippi mare School Run, a half-sister to the G2 placed dam of G2 WSB Premier Trophy/G3 Betting World 2200 winner Head Honcho.

School Run, in turn, is out of the dual winning Royal Academy mare She’s An Academic -whose sire, Royal Academy, is broodmare sire of more than 200 stakes winners including multiple champion sire Fastnet Rock, French champion Dabirsim, and classic winners Finsceal Beo and Rule Of Law.

Royal Academy is also sire of outstanding South African broodmare Mystic Spring, Equus Broodmare Of The Year in 2016-2017 and dam of seven stakes winners.

School Run’s granddam Damson is a Damascus three-parts sister to the Damascus sired G1 Hollywood Gold Cup winner and G1 Kentucky Derby Desert Wine -whose dual G1 winning half-brother Menifee ran second in the 1999 G1 Kentucky Derby.

This is also the family of numerous G1 winners including Albert The Great (Jockey Club Gold Cup), Congaree (Hollywood Gold Cup), Fasliyev (Prix Morny), Furiously (Jerome Handicap), Long Look (Epsom Oaks) Misty For Me (Irish 1000 Guineas), and U S Navy Flag (July Cup).

Multiple champion sire Jungle Cove is yet another star to hail from this prolific female line!

Breeders comment:

“Very Good looking, beautifully topped, Correct, Quality colt. He has a well-muscled hind quarter and is very pleasing on the eye.”

Lot 296 

​Vercingetorix colt bred on a potent cross

Outstanding stallion and Equus Champion Vercingetorix, famously pinhooked by the Riverside Grooms Thoroughbred Coop, has another fantastic season in 2023-2024. The champion son of six-time South African champion sire Silvano ended the season runner up on the South African General Sires List with his runners banking more than R28.413 million in stakes last season.

Vercingetorix, also second on South Africa’s Leading Sires of 3YOs premiership for 2023-2024, was responsible for no fewer than 14 stakes winners last season, with Vercingetorix runners claiming no fewer than 18 black type races in South Africa in 2023-2024.
The champion dominated the 2024 G1 Hollywoodbets Durban July, where Vercingetorix sons Oriental Charm and Cousin Casey ran first and second respectively. Oriental Charm had previously won the G3 Hollywoodbets Dolphins Cup Trial, while Cousin Casey finished runner up in no fewer than three G1 contests last season including the G1 Hollywoodbets Gold Challenge and G1 The HKJC Champions Cup.

Other flagbearers for the brilliant Vercingetorix last season included G1 Mercury Sprint winner Surjay, G1 World Sports Betting Cape Town Met runner up Rascallion, triple graded stakes winner Double Grand Slam, and graded stakes winning two-year-olds Cymric and Little Ballerina.

Riverton Stud, as Agent, will be offering the blue-blooded Vercingetorix colt Wild Justice (Lot 296) for sale at the 2024 August Two Year Old Sale. A full-brother to the high-class Supreme Warrior, Wild Justice is out of the Captain Al mare Sovereign Flo.
A three-parts sister to the Captain Al sired Listed Irridescence Stakes/Listed Olympic Duel Stakes winner Pure Power and closely related to the Al Mufti sired dual G3 winner Just Like Al, Sovereign Flo has already produced five winners including G3 Cape Of Good Hope Nursery third Mr Crumford (by Jackson), as well as the very speedy State Ballet (by St Petersburg).

Wild Justice’s full-brother Supreme Warrior showed top-class form at both three and four. At three, Supreme Warrior finished second, beaten just a short-head, in the G2 World Sports Betting Guineas -where he accounted for G1 winners Pomp And Power and Double Superlative, as well as last out G3 World Pool Gold Cup winner Master Redoute. At four, Supreme Warrior showed his speed when finishing a short-head second in the G3 Lebelo Sprint over 1000 metres.

The well bred Sovereign Flo, a half-sister to G2 Zulu Kingdom Explorer Golden Slipper runner up Let It Flow, is out of the three time winning Final Flo, a daughter of champion Model Man and G3 Sceptre Stakes winner Foverflo.

The latter was a Foveros half-sister to none other than Flobayou -South Africa’s Joint Horse in 1995 and a multiple champion sprinter.

Further back, this is the family of numerous top-class performers including G1 J&B Met winner Arctic Cove and outstanding filly Renounce.

Wild Justice is bred on the increasingly successful Vercingetorix/Captain Al cross. This cross has already produced G1 Allan Robertson Championship winner Vernichey, multiple graded stakes winner Double Grand Slam, and G1 Jonsson Workwear Computaform Sprint runner up Golden Sickle, to name a few.

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