Wilgerbosdrift’s exciting young stallion Hawwaam got off the mark as a sire when his first-crop son Read All About It made a winning debut on Sunday.
Trained, like his sire, by Mike de Kock, two-year-old Read All About It was allowed to settle early, before Muzi Yeni unleashed him close home.
From there, Read All About It hit the front and he powered away to win Turffontein’s 4Racing Welcomes You Maiden Juvenile Plate (1000m) by a length and a half.
Bred by his part-owners Ridgemont, Read All About It is out of the London News mare Picadilly Miss.
The colt is just the second runner for his sire Hawwaam, with Hawwaam’s first runner, Take It As Red, finishing fourth in each of her only two starts.
A son of six time South African Champion Sire Silvano (whose star sire son Vercingetorix is carrying all before him this season), champion Hawwaam won ten of just 13 starts, with the strapping bay earning R6,769,775 in stakes.
Like Vercingetorix and Dynasty, Hawwaam won the G1 Daily News 2000, with his remaining G1 successes coming in the S A Classic, Premier’s Champions Challenge (twice), and H F Oppenheimer Horse Chestnut Stakes.
In total, Hawwaam won eight graded races, with the champion winning over distances ranging from 1200m to 2000m.
Bred on the potent Silvano/Jet Master cross, Hawwaam is out of the Jet Master sired G3 Prix Du Cap/Listed Off To Stud Handicap winner Halfway To Heaven, Equus Broodmare Of The Year in 2018-2019, 2019-2020 and 2020-2021.
Hawwaam, a full-brother to Kings Cup runner up Celestial City, is a half-brother to 2020-2021 Horse Of The Year Rainbow Bridge and dual G1 winner Golden Ducat.
