Date posted November 19, 2009 | Posted by David Bay | Filed under
Sales NewsLaguna - NSW (November 19, 2009) - SOUTH African agent Robin Bruss must be thinking he got one of the buys of the sale at Keeneland November Breeding Stock Sale this week when the three-year-old filly Chillin Pretty was knocked down to his Northfields Bloodstock for just $US45,000.
The grey is a daughter of champion sire El Prado (Sadler’s Wells) and the NZ-bred Hoeberg (Maroof (USA)-Petrava by Imposing) and although she didn’t win in three starts, she has some pretty talented relatives, starting with her Gr.1-winning sire (whose son Artie Schiller stands in Victoria), dam and grandam.
Hoeberg won nine races in South Africa, where she was Champion Three-Year-Old Filly, three of them at Gr.1 level and she later won the Chairman’s Trophy in Singapore and went to Dubai to be third in the Dubai Duty Free-Gr.1. Hoeberg ended her career with five starts for trainer David Payne in Sydney and they included a third to Oomph in the Triscay Stakes-LR and a second to Lonhro in the Apollo Stakes-Gr.2, before an unplaced final run in the Queen of the Turf in April 2003.
A $350,000 buy for Dominion Bloodstock at the 1999 Karaka Premier, Hoeburg entered the ring again at Easter 2003 as part of the Inglis Australian Broodmare Sale and she was passed in at $1m on a $1.2m reserve. Sent to the US, she was sold in foal to El Prado, at the 2005 Keeneland November Sale for $600,000 to Dennis Yokum (as agent) and Chillin Pretty is her first foal.
Although Hoeburg’s dam Petrava was also bred in NZ, she too raced in South Africa and was also Champion Three-Year-Old Filly, winning five Group I races, before an international stud career. She is a daughter of Todman’s Gr.1-winning son Imposing and the Railway Stakes-Gr.1 winner Silver Liner (Sovereign Edition (IRE)). Petrava is also the dam of Jallad (Blushing Groom), a winner in England and then a Gr.2 winner in South Africa before become one of the leading sires in that country. Wusool (USA) (Gulch), a daughter of Petrava who was placed in England, is the dam of Alberghetti (Carnegie (IRE)), a winner in Sydney and third in the Adrian Knox Stakes-Gr.3.
All that considered, Chillin Pretty’s $45,000 price tag makes her look a very good buy indeed and shows the great value available at Keeneland during the current two-week auction.
