Colour Grandson Wins Randwick Guineas

Sean's late charge National Colour was a true champion, who enjoyed remarkable success at stud, despite dying young.

National Colour made her mark on the international stage this weekend when her grandson Celestial Legend ran out a courageous winner of the G1 The Agency Randwick Guineas in Australia on Saturday.

A colt by Dundeel, Celestial Legend stepped up to the highest level to score in a photo-finish from the well backed favourite Militarize (by Dundeel), with rank outsider Cafe Millenium (by Not a Single Doubt) finishing alongside the duo in third.

In what amounted to a blanket finish, the first nine horses across the line finished within a length and three-quarters of each other, with Tom Kitten finishing a very unlucky fourth after being held-up on more than one occasion over the final stages. Raced by Legend Racing, Celestial Legend has now won three of his seven starts and $951,575 in earnings having cost $220,000 as a yearling.

Celestial Legend, who had won the G2 Precise Air Hobartville Stakes last month, is out of Sarraqa -an unraced daughter of Snitzel and former South African Horse Of The Year National Colour.

National Colour is also the dam of highly successful sire Rafeef, whose progressive daughter Frances Ethel won Saturday's Listed Ormond Ferraris Oaks Trial.

Rafeef, whose son Master Archie is now standing at stud, is also the sire of Sean's top-class sprinter Thunderstruck, a game winner of the recent G2 Khaya Stables Diadem Stakes and currently one of the best sprinters in South Africa.

Safe to say, National Colour's legacy looks set to continue for many more years to come!