South Africa’s reigning champion sire Gimmethegreenlight came up with his 75th stakes winner when his daughter Green Diamond won the G2 TAB SA Nursery (1160m) at Turffontein on Saturday.
Trained by Sean Tarry, the two-year-old had finished second, in the Listed Wilgerbosdrift Ruffian Stakes, on debut, and duly showed her class in Saturday’s R500 000 contest.
Always prominent in running, under a well judged ride from Craig Zackey, Green Diamond hit the front someway from home and she stayed on strongly to account for some promising male rivals in stylish fashion.
Bred and owned by Drakestein Stud, Green Diamond joins Lucky Lad as a G2 SA Nursery winner sired by Gimmethegreenlight.
Green Diamond is out of the Trippi mare Lesedi La Rona and is thus bred on the same Gimmethegreenlight/Trippi cross as such G1 winners as Gimme A Prince and She’s A Keeper.
The filly is the second stakes winner to have emerged from her champion sire’s current crop of two-year-olds with Gimmethegreenlight’s current crop of two-year-olds also including the Drakenstein Stud bred and owned Listed Heineken Summer Juvenile Stakes winner Wild Wild Green.
Multiple champion sire Gimmethegreenlight has an excellent draft on offer at the National Yearling Sale, with his offering including a colt (Lot131) out of G2 Gauteng Fillies Guineas heroine Heaps Of Fun, filly (Lot 225) out of G1 SA Oaks winner Pine Princess, and a colt (Lot 274) from the same female line as legendary stallion Dubawi.