According to SAH Racing, Team Valor International is finalizing details on a private purchase of Quid Pro Quo, who as a juvenile earned Horse of the Year Honors at the KZN Racing Awards.
The racing news site reports that the deal was spearheaded by Team Valor CEO Barry Irwin along with Johannesburg bloodstock agent Robin Bruss and will be completed in the new year after export blood tests are cleared. The daughter of Lance has been campaigned in South Africa by Gerald Kalil.
Quid Pro Quo is the first horse to win all three of the Champions Season’s chief 2-year-old fillies’ races, the Allan Robertson Championship (G1) at Scottsville, the Golden Slipper (G2) at Greyville and the Douglas Whyte Thekwini Stakes (G1), also at Greyville.
Irwin told the site that the plan is to race Quid Pro Quo in Europe although she could start once more in South Africa before being shipped there. Further plans would include a winter 2026…
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