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New stallion for Western Cape

David Thiselton
The most expensive thoroughbred to ever be imported to South Africa, a USA-bred bay called Trippi, will be coming out of quarantine on Thursday and will take up stud duties at Drakenstein Stud in the Western Cape starting from September 1.
The standard forty shares in Trippi were available at R900 000 per share and have been snapped up by a cross-section of the leading breeders in South Africa.
Markus Jooste (Klawervlei) is a big investor and other notables to have purchased shares are Graham Beck (Highlands), Mary Slack (Wilgebosdrift), Sabine Plattner (La Plaissance), Gary Player (Gary Player Stud) and Dan de Wet (Zandvliet). Only two unsold shares remain.
The deal allows each investor two coverings per share per season and Drakenstein Stud Master, Ross Fuller, envisages Trippi covering 80 mares in his first season.
The stallion’s cover fee for outside investors is R100 000.
Trippi is by the Forty-Niner (Mr. Prospector) stallion, End Sweep.
On his sire’s side there is only one appearance of Northern Dancer, four generations back, and his dam is an outcross to Northern Dancer.
Jehan Malherbe of Form Bloodstock, who brought Trippi into the country, said, “He is an outcross to just about anything we have here.”
Fuller added, “He is a very nice size at 16,1 hands and will be very well suited and easily mated to South African mares.”
The eleven-year-old has already stood for three seasons in the USA.
He was the leading sire in Florida and also the leading sire of two-year-olds in Florida. He was the second leading US sire standing outside of Kentucky and the third leading US third-crop sire.
As a racehorse Trippi won seven times in 14 starts from 1200m to 1800m for earnings of $675,000.
As a three-year-old he won the Grade I Vosburgh Stakes, the Grade II Riva Ridge Stakes and the Grade II Tom Fool Handicap, all over 1400m on the dirt at Belmont Park, as well as the Grade III Flamingo Stakes over 1800m on dirt at Hialeah Park and the Grade III Swale Stakes over 1400m on dirt at Gulfstream Park.
As a four-year-old he finished second in the Grade II Gulfstream Park Breeders’ Cup Sprint Championship over 1400m on the dirt.
Although Trippi himself was a dirt horse his best performed progeny, Trippi’s Storm, was transformed as a racehorse when switched to turf. He won the Grade II Kelso Handicap at Belmont Park over a mile on turf and finished third in a Grade I race over 2400m on turf at Saratoga.
Trippi’s dam, the Valid Appeal mare Jealous Appeal, has produced four stakes winners and two stakes placed horses.
Fuller has inspected Trippi’s foals in America and said that they are stamped with his same athletic looks and bold eye.
“The best foal I saw came from a mare with the Al Mufti shape, a close coupled type,” said Fuller. “He was a speed horse but has also got his progeny to stay.”
Trippi’s best daughter has been Miss Macy Sue who has won eleven times for earnings of $787 230, finishing third in the Breeder’s Cup sprint for fillies and mares over 1200m on dirt at Monmouth Park and winning the Grade III Winning Colors Stakes over 1200m on dirt at Churchill Downs.
Both Trippi’s Storm and Miss Macy Sue were from Trippi’s first crop.
Trippi produced 228 foals in the USA of which 149 were runners (65%), 106 winners (46%), 52 won as two-year-olds (23%) and 12 were stakes winners (5%).
Fuller said that some very good quality mares had already been booked to the stallion.

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