Kahal dominated the Summerhill Stud Ready-To-Run 2YO Sale in South Africa on Wednesday.  His colt out of Listed winner Coastal Waltz (Coastal) topped proceedings at R400,000.

Like Street Cry, Kahal is a son of Machiavellian and was a Listed winner of the 1997 Challenge Stakes at Newmarket.  Sheikh Hamdan stands him at Summerhill Stud for a R50,000 fee and he is currently third on the 2011-12 South African sires’ premiership

Owner Brian Burnard purchased the sale-topper who is from Arlington Listed winner Coastal Waltz.  Burnard also paid next best price for a Mullins Bay- Class Will Sell colt at R240,000.  Kahal equalled that amount with a colt from Deal A Double to the bid of Stephen Chetty.

Summerhill Stud reported the average rose to R70,000.  The KwaZulu- Natal nursery, by its own admission, catalogued horses that were unwanted as yearlings because they were either, “late maturers, too little, injured or had less than perfect engineering”.

Currency converter:  Rand 1,000 = AUD 122