The owners of Grade 1 winner Snow Pilot, a son of deceased War Front stallion Lancaster Bomber, have extended an invitation to join them as they syndicate the class galloper for stud.
The opportunity includes the balance of his racing career at no cost.
A total of 50 shares will be sold at R80 000 each plus vat, and the share entitles the holder to two services per year for the first four years, and thereafter one service per year.
The service fee will be set by the Management Committee.
The 2023 Hollywoodbets Gr1 Cape Guineas winner, Snow Pilot registered his fifth win last Saturday and is now being targetted at the SA Champions Season in KZN.
His likely targets include the IOS Gr2 Drill Hall Stakes and the R2 million Hollywoodbets Gr1 Gold Challenge.
In an innovative move, all costs associated with Snow Pilot’s Durban campaign, including training fees, transport, entry fees and related expenses, will be funded from stakes earned during this period. Should there be a shortfall, this will be covered by Drakenstein Stud.
Syndicate members thus participate fully in the racing campaign, without downside risk.
Bred by champion breeders Drakenstein Stud, Lancaster Bomber was one of more than 100 stakes winners sired by War Front.
Lancaster Bomber won the 2018 Gr1 Tattersalls Gold Cup and finished second or third in six other Gr1 races.
Lancaster Bomber hailed from a hugely successful family, and one which has made a considerable mark on the South African turf.
A half-brother to triple Gr1 winner Excelebration (Exceed And Excel), Lancaster Bomber was one of four group/graded stakes winners produced by his dam Sun Shower (Indian Ridge).
The latter’s fifth dam Fantan also ranked as the granddam of South African champion Politician (Oligarchy), and is also ancestress of top-class, Al Mufti sired local gallopers as Al Nitak, The Sheik and Top Seller.
Lancaster Bomber, who is the sire of current SA Horse Of The Year Eight On Eighteen, sadly passed at the age of 7, while standing at Drakenstein Stud. He has sired twelve stakes winners, five of which, Snow Pilot, Beach Bomb, Eight On Eighteen, Rascova and Legend Of Arthur, won at Gr1 level
Snow Pilot was the first foal out of Captain Al star Snowdance, and like her son, she was trained by Justin Snaith.
Bred at Cheveley Stud, Snowdance commanded a R2-million price tag at the National Yearling Sale, an investment she would return with interest and more.
Raced by Drakenstein in partnership with the late Jack Mitchell, Snowdance opened her stakes account in dominant style when claiming the Gr2 Western Cape Fillies Championship.
She again impressed in the Gr1 Cape Fillies Guineas, taking the classic in sizzling style.
Sent off a short-prized favourite on the strength of her front-running tour de force in the Fillies Championship, different tactics saw her covered up, but she quickened into the lead at the quarter mark and cruised home to win geared down, the winning margin of just over three lengths flattering stable companion and future Horse of the Year Oh Susannah.
On to the Gr1 Majorca Stakes and in yet another flawless performance, she defeated a stellar field of mainly older fillies and mares.
Although Snowdance failed to hit the same dizzying heights at four, she nevertheless added seconds in both the Gr1 Gold Challenge and Gr1 SA Fillies Sprint and a third in the Gr1 Garden Province Stakes, before signing off on her career when fourth behind champion Kasimir in the Gr1 Mercury Sprint.
For further details on Snow Pilot’s syndication, please contact Jonathan Snaith, Kevin Sommerville or Tarryn Putz.
Headline images: Candiese Lenferna
