Maine Chance Farms’ champion sire elect Vercingetorix reached a notable milestone on Sunday. Vercingetorix came up with his 50th individual stakes winner when his son Thunee Playa won the Listed 4Racing Dr Richard Maponya Handicap (1800m) at Turffontein on Sunday.
A first winner for his trainer Mano Pandaram, four-year-old Thunee Playa picked up his biggest win to date when victorious in Sunday’s 1800m.
Kaidan Brewer bought the Vercingetorix colt with a sustained late challenge, and the pair got up to win, going away, by a long neck.
The winner had to survive a double objection after the race. Thunee Playa unquestionably moved in the finish, but the stipes didn’t believe it impacted the end result and overruled the objections.
Bred by Maine Chance, Thunee Playa has won five races from 16 starts and took his stakes earnings to R539 688 with his first black type victory.
The colt is out of the Galileo mare Cavalleria and was a R1 250 000 purchase from the 2022 National Yearling Sale.
Thunee Playa was the third stakes winner of the weekend for his sensational sire, with Vercingetorix also the sire of Saturday’s Listed SABC Olympic Duel Stakes winner I’m So Pritti and Saturday’s G3 City Of Cape Town Politician Stakes winner Zeitz.
Sons of Vercingetorix filled the first placings in the Politician Stakes, and the first four placings in the fifth race run at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday.
Remarkably, offspring of the Maine Chance star ran second in all of the G1 Maine Chance Farms Majorca Stakes, G1 HKJC World Pool Cape Flying Championship and G1 World Sports Betting Cape Town Met on Saturday.
South Africa’s Leading Sire for 2024-2025, Vercingetorix has a single lot on offer at the Cape Yearling Sale.