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Nov 06
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What A Winter son maintains his unbeaten record

By Cape Breeders, What A Winter

6th Nov’22 Cape Breeders Report:

Drakenstein Stud’s top-class resident sire What A Winter looks to have a really smart son in his hands in the form of Love In Winter.
The latter made it three wins from three starts when scoring a thrilling victory at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday afternoon.

A facile winner on debut, before following that win up with a triumph over 1000m at Durbanville, four-year-old Love In Winter was sent off tote favourite for Saturday’s www.hollywoodbets.net Middle Stakes (1100m) while making his Kenilworth debut.

Under Corne Orffer, the What A Winter colt came with a late rattle down the inside of the track before staying on gamely to hold off a fast finishing Tchaikovsky and score by a short head.
Bred by Klawervlei Stud, the Vaughan Marshall trained Love In Winter is out of the Dark Angel mare Lost In Love.

His four time G1 winning sire What A Winter is currently responsible for more than 20 stakes winners as well as impressive recent The Ready To Run Stakes winner Seeking The One.

South Africa’s Leading Sire of 2YOs in 2020-2021, What A Winter has four lots on offer at the upcoming November Two Year Old Sale including a filly (Lot 17) from the family of champion fillies Typhoon Tracy and Tracy’s Element, and a colt (Lot 182) out of a G3 winning daughter of High Chaparral.

What A Winter son maintains his unbeaten record

Oct 31
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Ready To Run Stakes success for What A Winter

By Cape Breeders, What A Winter

31st Oct’22 Cape Breeders Report:

Drakenstein Stud’s prominent resident sire What A Winter had yet another big pay on Sunday when his three-year-old son Seeking The One defied a wide draw to capture the R600 000 The Ready To Run Stakes (1400m) at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth.
Trained by Brett Crawford, Seeking The One was given a superb ride by Louis Mxothwa, who did well to get his mount to overcome his draw of twelve.

Sent for home with 200m left to run, the Klawervlei Stud bred Seeking The One kept finding more in the closing stages and stayed on gamely to repel the well fancied Piroshka and score by a neck.

Out of the Count Dubois mare Schism, Seeking The One, who ran third on debut to the sensational Charles Dickens, has now won twice from just five starts with Sunday’s win pushing the colt’s earnings to R351 500.

South Africa’s Leading Sire of 2YOs in 2020-2021, and Leading First Season Sire of 2016-2017 , What A Winter is having another fine season in 2022-2023.
Currently third on the South African General Sires List, What A Winter’s growing list of flagbearers this season include not only Seeking The One, but also G2 Topbet Joburg Spring F and M Challenge winner Humdinger.

What A Winter has four lots on offer at the upcoming November Two Year Old Sale.

Ready To Run Stakes success for What A Winter

Oct 21
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Debut winner for What A Winter

By Cape Breeders, What A Winter

21st Oct’22 Cape Breeders Report:

Drakenstein Stud’s highly successful sire What A Winter continues to churn out eye catching winners and the multiple Equus Champion was at it again at the Vaal on Thursday when What A Winter filly Lil Miss Moneybags made a cracking winning debut.

Under a strong ride from Ryan Munger, three-year-old Lil Miss Moneybags showed tremendous courage to hold off a wall of challenges and land Thursday’s #ThisIsRacing Welcomes You Maiden Plate (F&M) over 1000m by a neck.
Trained by Ashley Fortune, Lil Miss Moneybags was bred by Willem Engelbrecht Jr.

Out of the West Man mare Miss Moneybags, Lil Miss Moneybags was a R150 000 buy from the 2021 National Yearling Sale.

Her four time G1 winning sire What A Winter, whose flagbearers last season included such notable graded stakes winners as Miss Cool and Winter Smoke, has made a cracking start to the 2022-2023 racing season with his notable representatives thus far headed by G2 Topbet Joburg Spring Challenge F&M winner Humdinger.

What A Winter has seven lots catalogued for the upcoming Cape Racing Ready To Run & 2YO Unbroken Sale and a further four lots on offer at the 2022 November Two Year Old Sale.

 

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Oct 02
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What A Saturday for What A Winter

By Cape Breeders, What A Winter

5th Oct’22 Cape Breeders Report:

Drakenstein Stud’s four time G1 winning stallion What A Winter enjoyed a sensational day on Saturday, with the former Equus Champion supplying Saturday’s G2 Topbet Joburg Spring F&M Challenge winner Humdinger and two impressive winners at Hollywoodbets Durbanville on the same day.

The Mike de Kock trained Humdinger claimed her biggest win to date when she won Saturday’s R300 000 Joburg Spring F&M Challenge in fine style.
Under a well judged ride from JP Van Der Merwe, Humdinger made all to score a front running win by a neck at the expense of stable mate, and multiple graded stakes winner, Desert Miracle.

Bred by Ridgemont Highlands, the classy Humdinger was winning her second black type race, with the four-year-old also victorious in the Listed Off To Stud Stakes last time out. The filly, a winner of her last three starts, has now won five times from 13 outings overall.
Out of the Fort Wood mare Himalayan Hill, Humdinger is bred on the same What A Winter/Fort Wood cross as fellow stakes winners Fort Winter and Glacier Gold.

She was a R180 000 buy from the 2020 National 2YO Sale.

What A Winter progeny also accounted for the first two races run at Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Saturday afternoon.

His son Georgie George romped home to a facile win when successful in the first race on the Durbanville card, with that Harold Crawford/Michelle Rix trained gelding running out a two and a quarter length winner of the Hollywoodbets Durbanville Welcomes You Maiden Special Weights on Saturday.

What A Winter is also the sire of the very exciting Love In Winter, who made it two wins from two starts when he claimed Saturday’s Follow Cape Racing On Social Media Middle Stakes. That Klawervlei Stud bred four-year-old powered home, under Sean Veale, to win impressively by a length and a half, and Love In Winter looks destined for bigger and better things.
Trained by Vaughan Marshall, Love In Winter, who is out of the Dark Angel mare Lost In Love, had won his only previous start when skating home to beat the aforementioned Georgie George by two and a quarter lengths last month.

 

What A Saturday for What A Winter

Sep 30
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Turffontein double for What A Winter

By Cape Breeders, What A Winter

30th Sep ’22 Cape Breeders Report:

Drakenstein Stud’s red hot resident stallion What A Winter made headlines at Turffontein on Thursday when the former sprint champion came up with two eye catching winners.
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What A Winter fillies Asiye Phambili and Winter Muse filled the first two placings when they finished first and second respectively in Thursday’s #ThisIsRacing Welcomes You Maiden Plate (3-year-old fillies) over 1200 metres.
The Sean Tarry trained Asiye Phambili duly justified tote favouritism when she ran out a convincing one and a quarter length winner of Thursday’s race. Her paternal half-sister Winter Muse also caught the eye on Thursday when finishing a good second on debut.

Bred by the Hemel ‘N Aarde Stud, Asiye Phambili had finished second in her only two previous starts.

Out of the Rambo Dancer mare Cast A Spell, Asiye Phambili is a full-sister to G2 Western Cape Fillies Championship runner up Trickster.

What A Winter is also the sire of exciting three-year-old Far Away Winter, who made it three wins from just five starts when victorious in Thursday’s TAB 4Racing App Graduation Plate over 1000 metres.
Under Diego De Gouveia, the gelded Far Away Winter swept into the lead close home before pulling away to score by a length and a half.

Trained by Michael and Adam Azzie, Far Away Winter has now won two in a row for owner-breeder Drakenstein Stud, and he looks most progressive.

Turffontein double for What A Winter