Avontuur’s “daughter of two champions”, All that Jazz (Trippi x Val de Ra) was the top-selling filly at last week’s 2020 Cape Premier Yearling Sale and in another first, was also the first yearling to be bought for export to Australia via Mauritius and the UK.
Another filly who did extremely well for the farm was Live My Life by Gimmethegreenlight out of Muamba. She was sold for R1.1 million to European interests, but will be raced here first and do well we hope, before being exported.
Comments Avontuur GM Pippa Mickleburgh, “Our horses looked amazing and I think the fact that they did, was our saving grace in a really hard market. We had 10 different sires for all to choose from and due to that and our quality mares we had a good chance of doing well.”
The difficult economic situation was echoed by chief executive officer of Cape Thoroughbred Sales, Wéhann Smith who said “Considering the economic climate, both macro and micro, we came into the sale with limited expectations. But all said and done, it’s still a significant amount of money (sales totalled R56,490,000) and we still see a R3-million colt and a R2.2-million colt and two fillies over R1 million, in trying times as positive. “
At this sale 232 lots were catalogued, after withdrawals 216 were offered and 173 were sold. The aggregate was R56,490,000, the average R326,531 and the median R250,000. In Avontuur’s case, all 10 sold for an average of R585 000 which shows the quality of the group on offer.
Avontuur Estate would like to thank all buyers and trainers who supported us and we look forward to see them perform in future. A special thanks to all the under bidders, without whom we would have fallen short.
