Maine Chance Farms’ consistently successful sire Querari came up with his 44th stakes winner when his son I Am Giant won the G3 Post Merchants (1200m) at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday.
Third in the 2024 G1 Golden Horse Sprint, the Stuart Ferrie trained five-year-old defied his 25-1 starting price with a taking performance in Saturday’s R500 000 race.
Under an inform Sean Veale, I Am Giant powered home to get up and win by three-parts of a length.
Owned by Hollywood Racing, the Mr Dickerson bred gelding has won five of 18 outings.
I Am Giant, who is out of the Var mare Vars Honour, is the second son of Querari to win the Post Merchants. His paternal half-brother Kangaroo Jack won the same race back in the 2016 renewal.
Querari went close to having a feature race double on Hollywoodbets Durban July day when his classy son Underworld ran second in the Listed Premier Gateway International Handicap.
Querari’s second graded success this weekend came when his son Choisaanada won the G3 4Racing Sea Cottage Stakes (1800m) at Turffontein on Sunday. In the process, Choisaanada made it a clean sweep of the Highveld’s 3YO Winter Series, with the gelding having also won the Listed Betway Secretariat Stakes and 4Racing Egoli Mile.
Bred by Shadwell Stud, the Erico Verdonese trained Choisaanada has won five of ten starts for owners Isabella Lombard and Brian Jossell.