Capetown’ and Linngari to Summerhill

Lady Laidlaw’s Khaya Stables South African champion miler Capetown Noir (SAf) (Western Winter–Akinfeet {Saf}, by Fort Wood), a triple Grade I winner over three seasons of racing in his native country, will stand at Summerhill Stud in South Africa it was announced Tuesday. A R1-million yearling purchase from his breeder Lammerskraal Stud, who stood his sire, the late Western Winter, Capetown Noir was trained by Dean Kannemeyer to take down top level victories in the GI Cape Guineas, GI Investec Cape Derby and the GI L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate. The bay also landed the GIII Matchem S., and GIII Byerley Turk S. and placed twice more at the Grade I level during a 20-start career. Capetown Noir was retired in December of 2014 after an injury flare up with eight wins and $208,000 in prize money. Out of South African Broodmare of the Year Akinfeet (SAf), herself by champion broodmare sire Fort Wood, Capetown Noir is a full-brother to GIII August S. winner Across the Ice (SAf). A fee will be announced later.

Capetown Noir is joined on the Summerhill Stud roster by German and Italian highweight Linngari (Ire) (Indian Ridge {GB}–Lidakiya {Ire}, by Kahyasi {GB}). The globetrotter who raced in the silks of Rupert Plersch and Peter Walichnowski, landed Italy’s G1 Premio Vittorio Di Capua and the G1 Grosser Dallmayr Preis Bayerisches Zuchtrennen at Munich besides four other top level placings in Hong Kong, England, the United Arab Emirates and France. An earner of over $2.7 million, Linngari previously stood in France and his oldest foals are 5-year-olds. He has already been represented by four stakes winners and seven stakes performers.

“Our eyes have been fixed on Linngari ever since those heady days in Dubai; we followed him to Hong Kong, Germany, France, England, Ireland, Italy and Istanbul in the hope he’d make it here one day,” said Greig Muir, stallion master at Summerhill Stud. “At last it’s a reality, and to have him, one of the best international campaigners of his era, come to us in the same year as one of South Africa’s best racehorses of his generation, is a signal occasion in a long history of landmarks of our time.”