Champion turf sprinter from Ireland, France and Dubai, A CASE OF YOU (IRE), lands in South Africa on Friday 19thth In April 2024, he will be the fastest horse since VAR (USA) won the same race, Prix de Longchamp (Gr1) 20 years ago.
Winner of the European 1000m Sprint Championship, Prix Abbaye de Longchamp (Gr1)
It was purchased by Mrs. Gaynor's Drakenstein Stud. in your caseis an imposing horse with 16.2 hand muscles and a weight of 585 kg. He is exactly what you would expect from a champion sprinter.
in your case It was campaigned all over the world and thoroughly tested as a racehorse. He ran 22 times in six countries – the UK, Ireland, France, USA, Dubai and Australia – on all surfaces – grass, synthetic and dirt – against some of the world's best sprinters. He won on hard, yielding and heavy fields, campaigning for five consecutive seasons and earning £1,162,956 for seven wins from 1000m to 1300m.
In short, he was an admirable racehorse who must have had an incredible temperament to be away from home so often, adapt easily to different conditions, and always give his best. there is no.
Case won the Gr3 Anglesey Stakes in 2nd place (Photo – Racingfotos.com)
A Case of You started his career very smartly, using his impressive size to win two of his first three races in Ireland, including the Anglesey Stakes (Gr3) at Curragh. It was.
At the age of three, he won the Prix Habbey de Longchamp (Gr1), Europe's highest 1000m race. This race is a breed-building event that is always won by the world's fastest horses.
The ground became soft and A Case Of You sat in number 6th.
“It all happened so fast,” jockey Ronan Whelan said. And as I got closer and closer, I said, oh, I have a chance to get a result and win on such a big day, and it was hard to put into words the joy. ”
On “A CASE OF YOU,'' he says, “He literally took me all over the world. He put my name on the world stage. The ad, everyone in the garden, we owe it to him.'' I couldn't be more grateful.”
At the age of four, A CASE OF YOU traveled all over the world and his greatest victory came in Dubai. There he beat some of the top international sprinters in the $1 million 1,200-meter prize-money Al-His Quoz Sprint (Gr1), this time leading from the start. On a hot, sweaty day, he finished in 1:08.07, the second-fastest time in race history.
Behind him were Gr1 sprinters from Great Britain, Ireland, France, America and Japan. Naval Crown (Royal Ascot Platinum Jubilee Gr1), Air de Vals (Prix Abbey Gr1), Casa Creed (4 Gr1 wins in America).
Case of You's “Great Horse, Another Gr1'' wins the $1 million Al Quoz (Gr.1) in Dubai.
A CASE OF YOU is a Mr. Prospector stallion from the Gone West branch that has achieved good results in South Africa.
His sire, HOT STREAK, was one of the fastest sprinters of his time and a champion sire of two-year-olds, including Coolmore's newest champion sire, Wooten Bassett. This is by IFRAAJ. Wooten Bassett is currently a €150,000 service fee stallion who has sired 10 Grade 1s. winner.
Drakenstein's Kevin Somerville said: “We are very excited about the arrival of European sprint star A Case of You.”
“He is a very large and powerful animal, and he is the late Sprinters and Two-Year-Old Champion Sire, VAR (USA), who won the same races as him and produced so many outstanding champions in South African horse racing. He looks like the perfect successor.” He has inherited Vaal's mantle of 'Need for Speed' very well and will be popular with breeders and buyers alike.
He will begin his first season at Drakenstein Stud this season with a stud fee of R25,000.
