Maine Chance Farms’ outstanding stallion Vercingetorix dominated proceedings at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Sunday.
Silvano’s champion son came up with a trio of feature race wins, with Vercingetorix sired runners capturing all of the Listed In Full Flight Handicap, G3 Tote Strelitzia Stakes, and G3 Tote Godolphin Barb Stakes on Sunday.
Three-year-old O’Tenikwa became Vercingetorix’s 55th stakes winner when landed Sunday’s Listed In Full Flight Handicap (1100m).
Under Corne Orffer, the Andre Nel trained gelding claimed his biggest win to date when he stormed home to get up and win by a short-head.
O’Tenikwa, third in the G3 Byerley Turk on his previous start, has won four of ten starts.
Bred and owned by Sabine Plattner, O’Tenikwa is out of the Captain Al mare Kwitizina and is berd on the same Vercingetorix/Captain Al cross as G1 winners Double Grand Slam and Vernichey.
Remarkably, O’Tenikwa is the tenth stakes winner to have emerged from his sire’s current crop of three-year-olds.
Vercingetorix, though, also has some exciting two-year-olds, and juvenile fillies by the Maine Chance resident captured both Sunday’s Tote Strelitzia Stakes and Tote Godolphin Barb Stakes.
The promising Quickstepgal made it two wins when she won Sunday’s G3 Strelitzia Stakes (1100m).
Under Kabelo Matsunyane, the Tienie Prinsloo trained filly followed up an impressive maiden win with a courageous neck victory in the Strelitzia Stakes.
Bred by Greenacres Trust, Quickstepgal is out of the Jet Master mare Victoriana and is thus bred on the same cross as Vercingetorix’s graded stakes winning sons African Warrior and Rascallion.
Quickstepgal was a R450 000 buy from the 2024 National Yearling Sale.
Her paternal half-sister Elegantrix provided Vercingetorix with his third stakes win on Sunday when she downed male rivals to win the G3 Godolphin Barb Stakes (1100m).
The Corne Spies trained filly kept going gamely, under Gavin Lerena, to stave off runner up Good For You and pick up her first black type win by a neck.
Bred by Greenacres Trust in partnership with Hemel ‘N Aarde Stud, Elegantrix has won two of four starts, with her efforts also including a third place finish in the Listed Wilgerbosdrift Ruffian Stakes.
Out of the Danehill Dancer mare Elegantes, Elegantrix was a R850 000 buy from the 2024 August Two Year Old Sale.
Remarkably, Vercingetorix is also the broodmare sire of Sunday’s G3 Dennis Drier Poinsettia Stakes winner Mai Sensation, with that Rafeef filly produced by Vercingetorix mare Mai Tai.
In total, Vercingetorix had four graded or listed winners over the weekend, with his daughter Mia Moo winning Saturday’s G2 TAB Camellia Stakes.