Drakenstein Stud’s inform stallion What A Winter, South Africa’s Leading First Season Sire of 2016-2017, has had an excellent season with his two-year-olds, and the four time G1 winning son of Western Winter supplied another pair of smart juvenile winners at Kenilworth on Saturday.

What A Winter colt Danilo Danilovitch kicked the Kenilworth meeting off in fine style, when he made all to land Saturday’s first race, the World Sports Betting Juvenile Plate (1200m), by a long neck.
Under a well judged ride from Grant Van Niekerk, the colt kept finding more in the closing stages of Saturday’s race and stayed on to score a courageous win.

Out of the Captain Al mare The Merry Widow, Danilo Danilovitch has now won three of eight starts, and had finished third earlier in the season in the Listed World Sports Betting Somerset 1200.
Like Danilo Danilovitch, What A Winter filly Winter Mosaic is trained by Justin Snaith for her owner-breeders Drakenstein Stud.

The What A Winter daughter showed her class when scoring, under Richard Fourie, a three-parts of a length win in Kenilworth’s second race,the World Sports Betting Juvenile Plate (Fillies) (1200m), on Saturday.

Out of the Elliodor mare Zeigler, Winter Mosaic, who has now won twice from just six starts, had finished second in the G3 Kenilworth Fillies Nursery earlier in the season.

What A Winter, who hails from the same female line as this season’s outstanding three-year-old St Mark’s Basilica, has been responsible for 22 juvenile winners in South Africa this season thus far, with his two-year-olds including Listed East Cape Nursery/Listed Dahlia Plate victor Whatever Next, speedy filly Cold Fact, and G3 filly Casa Inverno.