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Withdrawals wreak havoc as breeders give yearling sale a miss

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Pandemic takes its toll as studs decide to give Germiston sale a miss, preferring to sell online off farm

The surge of Covid-19 cases in Gauteng has affected this week's National Yearling Sale in Germiston with more than 130 lots of the 479 catalogued withdrawn by vendors.

Chris van Niekerk, chairman of Klawervlei, said on Tuesday: “The pandemic has a great deal to do with it [the withdrawals]. Breeders, in order to keep costs down, have been selling off the farm. “For some of the smaller breeders, it is costly to come to nationals and they decided they didn't want to travel. Each will have had their own reasons,” added De Klerk.

This chestnut colt is a half-brother to Kasimir who has won seven races and was voted Equus Champion Sprinter for the 2018/19 season. A plus factor is that the youngster was an early foal being born in the first week of August. So it is as big a certainty as night following day that Peter will cast his expert eye over Summer Pudding's half-brother named Vanderbilt. The colt — consigned by Mauritzfontein Stud — is by What A Winter whose progeny have done well since he retired to stud in 2013.

 

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