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Cape Town sold to Brazilian interests

Posted: Tuesday, June 30, 2009 1:34 PM

by Michael Burns

Overbrook Farm stallion Cape Town, sire of 2003 champion three-year-old filly and Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner Bird Town, has been sold to Brazilian interests and will travel to Brazil for the 2009 Southern Hemisphere breeding season.

The sale was confirmed by Haras Red Rafa co-owner Rafael Steinbruch, who will stand the Overbrook homebred at his Americana stud in Sao Paulo.
 
Cape Town is expected to arrive in Brazil in July.

A 14-year-old by Seeking The Gold out of 1990 Kentucky Oaks (G1) winner Seaside Attraction, by Seattle Slew, Cape Town has sired 16 stakes winners and six graded stakes winners from eight crops of racing age, including 206 winners from 267 starters who had earned a total of $13,926,323 through Monday.

Bird Town remains Cape Town’s leading earner. Besides the Kentucky Oaks (G1), Bird Town won the Acorn Stakes (G1) and earned $871,251.

Winner at two of the Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes (G3) at Churchill Downs over eventual Kentucky Derby (G1) and Preakness Stakes (G1) winner Real Quiet, Cape Town won the 1998 Florida Derby (G1) and Holy Bull Stakes (G3) and earned $795,817. He is a half brother to 1995 champion two-year-old filly Golden Attraction and Grade 3 winner and sire Cape Canaveral.

Michael Burns is a South America-based Thoroughbred Times correspondent

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