Maine Chance Farms’ resident sire, and champion South African sire elect, Vercingetorix came up with his fourth G1 winner when his son Pomp And Power won Saturday’s G1 Jonsson Workwear Cape Derby (2000m) at Kenilworth on Saturday.

Trained by Justin Snaith, Pomp And Power received a change of tactics in Saturday’s R1 000 000 feature, with the normally front running gelding settled well off the pace by Richard Fourie.

The latter bought his mount with a sustained late run down the inside of the track, and Pomp And Power romped home to beat front runner Universal into second, with favoured G1 Cape Guineas winner Double Superlative (a stablemate to the winner) finishing third.
Bred by Maine Chance Farms, Pomp And Power has now won five of nine starts, with Saturday’s victory pushing his earnings to R1 050 275.

Out of the Candy Stripes mare Peru, Pomp And Power is a full-brother to promising filly Pucallpa, who ran third, on debut, in Saturday’s G3 Kenilworth Fillies Nursery.

Pomp And Power, a R250 000 purchase from the 2020 National Yearling Sale, has now captured three graded races, with the gelding’s previous graded wins coming in this season’s G2 Concorde Cup and last season’s G3 Goals And Gallops Langerman.

He joins Ambiorix, Vernichey and this season’s G1 WSB Cape Fillies Guineas winner Chansonette as G1 winners sired by Vercingetorix.

Remarkably, Ambiorix, Pomp And Power and Chansonette all hail from Vercingetorix’s current crop of three-year-olds!

The latter, currently heading the South African General Sires List, has been represented by eight black type winners, who have won 10 stakes races between them, in 2021-2022.