Varsfontein Stud’s champion sire Gimmethegreenlight was the toast of Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Saturday when the son of More Than Ready supplied two very impressive G1 winners. Not only did Gimmethegreenlight’s unbeaten son Lucky Lad run out a hugely impressive winner of Saturday’s G1 Gold Medallion (1200m), Gimmethegreenlight’s G1 Pongracz Cape Flying Championship winning son Gimme A Prince stormed home to win Saturday’s G1 Golden Horse Sprint in scintillating fashion.
A brilliant winner of his three previous starts culminating in an eye-catching win in the G2 World Sports Betting SA Nursery, Lucky Lad provided the combination of Sean Tarry and Richard Fourie with their second of three G1 successes on Saturday.
Despite racing green, the Tarry-trained Lucky Lad proved in a different division to his hapless rivals with the Gimmethegreenlight colt pulling well clear to win by over five and a quarter lengths. He is now unbeaten in four starts, with the colt having beaten Gimmethegreenlight runners Amber Rock and Gimmeanotherchance into second and third places respectively when victorious in the G3 Protea Stakes earlier this season.
Lucky Lady, who was bred by Varsfontein Stud, is the seventh G1 winner for Gimmethegreenlight.
The colt, a full-brother to G3 Fillies Mile winner Follow Me, is out of the Caesour mare Imperial State, with the 2023 G1 Gold Medallion winner having been purchased for R850 000 at the 2022 National Yearling Sale.
Gimmethegreenlight claimed yet another G1 feature on Saturday when his brilliant son Gimme A Prince ran out a convincing winner of the R850 000 Golden Horse Sprint over 1200 metres. Winner of both the G1 Pongracz Cape Flying Championship and G2 Cape Merchants earlier in the season, the Dean Kannemeyer trained four-year-old was given a fine ride by Keagan De Melo, which saw the pair swoop late to win going away by nearly a length.
The uber-consistent gelding, who had finished a close-up second in the G2 Independent On Saturday Drill Hall Stakes last time out, has now won six of just ten starts, with Gimme A Prince having just once failed to finish in the placings.
Bred and owned by Khaya Stables, Gimme A Prince is out of the Trippi mare Real Princess, and is thus bred on the same Gimmethegreenlight/Trippi cross as fellow G1 winner She’s A Keeper.
His sire Gimmethegreenlight, South Africa’s Champion Sire of 2020-2021, is currently South Africa’s Leading Sire, by Stakes, for 2022-2023 and is also the country’s Leading Sire of 2YOs for the current season.