Corne Spies secured seven lots at the recent Bloodstock SA Two-Year-Old Sale and said: “We had a terrific sale, things just fell into place and our bids landed, we got what we wanted.” Spies, his father Tobie and son Xander use a points system to select potential purchases and, with consistent success, they’ve never changed or tweaked their methods. They have shares available in Lot 224, a Sandown-bred colt by Soqrat and Lot 332, a Rafeef filly from Winterbach Stud.

Spies said: “The Soqrat colt (headline photoi) is a super specimen. His coat was all hairy and I thought we’d buy him for a small amount of money, but others obviously saw his potential and he went for R325,000. Still, it was money well spent, and I think he won’t take long in coming to hand. He’s a half-brother to Mike de Kock’s runners Arividicio and Beamonesque. The Rafeef filly is a big, like our William Robertson, with lots of scope. She is a half-sister to Val D’Orcia, who was very fast and won the Grade 2 Post Merchants.”

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