HORSE RACING
Await The Dawn progeny elevate Summerhill sale
For perfect timing, it does not get much better than this for champion breeder Mick Goss. At next week’s Emperors Palace Ready-To-Run Sale he will offer the last progeny of Await The Dawn and to say that his progeny are firing is an understatement. The latest log published by the Sporting Post for the R2.5m Ready-To-Run Cup to be run at Turffontein on November 4 shows there are five Await The Dawns in the first 12 on the log. The horses in question are Sean Tarry’s colts Big Bear and Genesis, the filly Tammany Hall trained by Paul Peter, filly Pilgrim’s Progress trained by Gavin van Zyl and the colt Ekuseni in the stable of Stuart Pettigrew. Ill-fated Await The Dawn, who died following a freak accident in 2014, was a versatile performer, winning from 1,400m to 2,400m. His biggest win came in the grade2 Hardwicke Stakes at Ascot. Commenting on the loss, Goss said: "Here was a horse in the prime of his life whose stock on the ground had caught the attention of some of the country’s fi...
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