Klawervlei Stud’s exciting young stallion, and former Equus Champion Sprinter, Captain Of All has made a promising start to his stud career and the triple G1 winner was responsible for  a second first crop winner when his 2yo son Guantanamo Bay won at the Vaal on Thursday afternoon.

Bred by Maine Chance Farms, the Dorrie Sham trained Guantanamo Bay showed the value of experience as he built on a first out effort to win going away by a length over 1000m under jockey S’Manga Khumalo on Thursday –leaving some exceptionally promising and well bred two-year-olds trailing in his wake.

Guantanamo Bay joins the promising filly What You Are as early first crop winners for Captain Of All. The latter, to date, has already had six members of his first crop either win or finish in the money –with the promise of plenty more to come.
At the time of writing, Captain Of All is South Africa’s second Leading First Crop Sire  by individual winners.

Bred by Riverton Stud, and a former Klawervlei Farm Sale graduate, Captain Of All won or placed in 11 of 12 outings, won three G1 races and was South Africa’s Equus Champion Sprinter of 2014-2015.

A true champion, and G1 winner at two and four, Captain Of All accounted for some of the best horses of his generation, including Carry On Alice (also by Captain Al), Legislate, Willow Magic, and Normanz.

Like seven times champion sire Jet Master, Captain Of All won both the G1 Tsogso Sun Sprint and G1 Mercury Sprint.

Captain Of All is one of 19 G1 winners for his deceased champion sire, whose other notable progeny include such Equus Champions as the abovementioned Carry On Alice, and Always In Charge, All Is Secret, Cloth Of Cloud and Captain’s Lover, as well as recent G1 winners Kasimir, Snowdance, Sergeant Hardy and Undercover Agent.