MULTIPLE GR1 WINNER RETIRED TO STUD
The beautifully bred and well performed Warm White Night has been retired to stud.
A stud fee of R15,000 has been announced.
Warm White Night was amongst the best horses of his generation. He takes to stud both a superb pedigree and a top-class race record.
The fastest 2yo of his generation, Warm White Night won his first three starts in scintillating fashion. He made an amazing debut when winning the Gr3 Protea Stakes by 4.75 lengths first up. Remarkably, runner up was Cerise Cherry, later a Gr3 winner in both South Africa and Hong Kong.
Warm White Night confirmed his class next time out, when he again beat Cerise Cherry comfortably to win the prestigious Gr2 The Nursery.
Warm White Night made it a hatrick of graded race victories when he took the Gr1 Gold Medallion at his third start. Sent out a prohibitive favourite, he again defeated the luckless Cerise Cherry.
Warm White Night proved that he trained on at three, with a easy victory in the Gr3 Man O’ War Stakes. He was also narrowly beating, in a thrilling finish, in the country’s premier’s 1000 meter race the Computaform Sprint.
Few horses win graded races at 2,3 and 4, but Warm White Night did just that. He showed all his class when landing the Cape’s biggest sprint, the Gr1 Cape Flying Championship. He showed a fine turn of foot to down a top-class field of outstanding sprinters. The Cape Flying Championship has been contested by such top stallions as Harry Hotspur, Captain Al and Jet Master in previous years.
Warm White Night’s final victory came in a Pinnacle Plate where he thrashed champion Mythical Flight to win by over five lengths!
Without doubt one of the fastest and most exciting horses of his generation, Warm White Night has the looks and pedigree to back up his racing class. He was a R1.8 million yearling purchase at the 2007 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale.
His sire, Western Winter, has been champion sire on three occasions. His numerous champions include Yard-Arm, Winter Solstice, Bad Girl Runs, Ice Cube, as well as the 2010 Bloodstock SA Cape Guineas winner Solo Traveller.
Western Winter, sire of 17 individual Gr1 winners, is currently South Africa’s leading sire of 3yos, having been represented by six individual stakes performing 3yos this season.
Warm White Night is out of the stakes winning Foveros mare, Thousand Nights. Thousand Nights won 8 races, including the Jubilee Handicap. At stud Thousand Nights has produced six stakes horses including champion Highland Night. She is also the dam of Gr2 Gold Circle Derby winner Prince Asad and the smart sprinter Vogue. The latter is the dam of the very talented Fort Vogue, winner of the Gr3 Peninsula Handicap.
With so much going for him, Warm White Night looks to be an exciting addition to the South African stallion band.
