DANZIG (Northern Dancer), one of the all-time great stallions, achieved a strike-rate of stakes winners to foals born that most could only dream of.
His classic-placed Group 1-winning sprint sons Danehill and Green Desert forged branches of his line, and of those we are seeing develop from the latter, Oasis Dream’s is notably popular.
Showcasing is among his most in-demand sons, commanding a fee of £45,000 at Whitsbury Manor Stud and with a profile with sprinters and milers that could easily see him achieve the accolade classic sire before long.
Group 1 winners Advertise and Mohaather are among his growing list of sons at stud, one a sprinter and the other a miler. Tasleet and Soldier’s Call are also very popular and in the early stages of their stallion careers.
However, the race to become the first blacktype sire-son of Showcasing is over because Pierre Lapin’s victory in the Group 2 Mill Reef Stakes in 2019 awarded that honour to Cappella Sansevero. A 140,000gns Tattersalls Book 1 graduate who ran only in Group 1 and Group 2 company last season, Pierre Lapin is a half-brother to the multiple Group 1 star Harry Angel and could be a sprinter to watch in 2021.
Cappella Sansevero does not have as many representatives as many of his cohorts but he covered 50 mares last year and should continue to find favour among those looking for a horse who excelled when it came to showing speed and precocity.
He ran away with a Dundalk maiden in mid-April of his two-year-old season, pipped Dick Whittington over six furlongs at Naas a month later, ran away with the Listed Marble Hill Stakes at the Curragh and chased home future Group 1 star The Wow Signal in the Group 2 Coventry Stakes at Royal Ascot, just after selling for £1.3 million at that year’s Goffs London Sale.
The Ger Lyons-trained bay was only beaten by half a length and a short head when third to Dick Whittington and Kool Kompany in the Group 1 Phoenix Stakes that August, three weeks before he landed the Group 3 Round Tower Stakes over the same course and distance.
He rounded off that busy first season with a fourth-place finish to Charming Thought in the Group 1 Middle Park Stakes, beaten by less than two lengths.
Cappella Sansevero, out of a winning mare by the sire of Acclamation (Royal Applause), is related to the Grade 1-placed triple Grade 2-winning War Front (Danzig) grandson Factor This, and from the prolific blacktype family of the Japanese classic and Dubai World Cup star Victoire Pisa (Neo Universe), a classic sire.
CAPPELLA SANSEVERO (GB), Bay 2012. Won four races, £131,738, from 5 furlongs to 6 furlongs, at 2 years including, Nestle Support Autism Round Tower Stakes, Curragh, Gr.3, Cold Move EBF Marble Hill Stakes, Curragh, L, also placed second in Coventry Stakes, Ascot, Gr.2, and third in Keeneland Phoenix Stakes, Curragh, Gr.1.
Retired to Stud in 2016, and sire of the winners of 14 races, and £231,321, including PIERRE LAPIN (IRE)
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