East Cape Nursery success for Visionaire | Cape Breeders Club

East Cape Nursery success for Visionaire

21st Apr 2023

Gelykfontein Stud’s successful resident sire Visionaire came up with a smart looking feature race winner on Friday, when his two-year-old son Vision Of Wonder captured the Listed East Cape Nursery (1200m) at Fairview.

Trained by Gavin Smith, Vision Of Wonder had been placed in his first two starts before breaking his maiden at the third time of asking when romping home to score by seven and a quarter lengths.

In Friday’s Listed feature race for two-year-olds, Vision Of Wonder strolled home, under the inform JP Van Der Merwe, to win by an emphatic three and a quarter lengths.

Bred by Sandown Stud, Vision Of Wonder has now won two of just four starts.

Out of the Silvano mare Red Ridge, Vision Of Wonder was a R160 000 buy from the 2022 KZN Yearling Sale.

His sire Visionaire had previously gone close to winning the East Cape Nursery with his son Norton Sound, who ran second in the 2021 Listed East Cape Nursery.

Vision Of Wonder is the tenth stakes winner for Visionaire, South Africa’s Leading First Season Sire of 2014-2015 and Leading Second Season Sire the following season.

Other notable performers sired by Visionaire include former Equus Champion Good Traveller and fellow G1 winner Takingthepeace.

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