King's Apostle to stand at Klawervlei Stud
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King's Apostle to stand at Klawervlei Stud
15 years 3 months ago
EXCITING NEW SIRE IMPORT – KING’S APOSTLE (IRE)
So many of our past leading sires were Gr1 winners or had at least useful Gr1 form and were leading lights of their generation in racing. In another edition of our eNews we will cover the stallion strike rate and how it can be loaded for success. Basically it’s all about breeding to Gr1 winners and especially those with speed and/ or precocity.
With that in mind, it is my great pleasure to announce the arrival in South Africa of our newest stallion for 2010: King’s Apostle (IRE), a leading sprinter in Europe last season. He beat Europe’s top sprinters in the Gr1 Prix Maurice de Gheest (Deauville) earning a highest Timeform Rating of 124 in that event. He also a won Gr2 race at Ascot and would have won the Gr1 July Cup had he not been severely bowled whilst making his move close home. This handsome son of European Champion miler King’s Best will be syndicated to stand at Klawervlei Stud. King’s Best won the Gr1 2000 Guineas by an incredible 3.5 lengths and was TFR 132. He has bred 25 stakes winners and 11 Gr1 horses incl. Proclamation (TFR 132) and Creachadoir (TFR 126) – both recently retired to stud.
King’s Best hails form one of the most active families in the stud book today – he is a 3 part brother to Urban Sea, dam of Champion sire Galileo and 2009 Horse Of The Year Sea the Stars.
Gr1 winner King’s Apostle (IRE) was genuine, smart performer highly rated by his trainer William Haggis, who only raced him in Gr1 races last season.
King’s Apostle’s pedigree provides numerous proven matings for breeders to follow here. Consider that Galileo’s pedigree has Sadler’s Wells over a Mr Prospector daughter over great mare Allegretta; King’s Apostle is a son of Mr Prospector line over Allegretta over a Sadler’s Wells line mare (see graphic on page 2).
King’s Apostle’s own family has plenty of top class speed and strength in it. He is the 1st foal of his dam (very few mares produce Gr1 winners from 1st foals). His dam is out of the 1997 European Champion 2yo filly, Embassy – a very impressive winner of the Gr1 Cheveley Park Stakes. She is a half sister to Tarfshi, the Irish Pretty Polly stakes winner. The next dam, Pass the Peace also won the Gr1 Cheveley Park Stakes which secured her title as Irish Champion 2yo in 1998.
King’s Apostle is bred on one of the strongest crosses in current times, the Kingmambo/ Sadler’s Wells cross. Most Kingmambo stakes winners rely on the cross which has delivered an impressive 21 stakes winners including El Condor Pasa; Henrythenavigator, Thewayyouare, Divine Proportions etc.
Full details of his race record and pedigree, as well as a DVD video presentation on King’s Apostle have been added to our web site and can be viewed by visiting: www.freemanstallions.co.za .
ARO have also added a brief preview of King’s Apostle on the home page of their informative website ( www.aro.co.za ) and the Sporting Post have included some coverage in their forthcoming weekend edition. Exciting news indeed and a major coup for SA breeders in these challenging times!
John Freeman
PS: Please see attached PDF for more detail and graphics
Attached files eNews - King's Apostle 18.2.2010.pdf (167.7 KB)Â
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