Currently South Africa’s Leading Sire by stakes for 2020-2021, Varsfontein Stud’s G1 winning stallion Gimmethegreenlight enjoyed another handsome payday at Turffontein on Saturday when his sons Got The Greenlight and Second Base ran first and second respectively in the G1 4Racing Champions Challenge (2000m).

In what was billed the race of the season,  the Joe Soma trained Got The Greenlight bested a field, which included reigning Horse Of The Year Summer Pudding and World Sports Betting Triple Crown winner Malmoos, to capture Saturday’s G1 4Racing Champions Challenge (2000m) at Turffontein on Saturday in convincing fashion.

Long shot Divine Odyssey went out to make the running, ahead of Cirillo, with the top three fancies, Summer Pudding, Malmoos and Got The Greenlight tracking the pacemakers.

When Divine Odyssey dropped away, it was left to outsider Cirillo to kick on, and the son of Pomodoro tried to get away from his rivals.
However, Muzi Yeni mustered a strong late challenge aboard Got The Greenlight, and the four-year-old champion took command 100m from home and kept going gallantly to score by three-parts of a length.
The Gold Star Stud bred three-year-old Second Base caught the eye back in second spot, with the gelding having previously finished second in the G1 World Sports Betting SA Classic and third in the G1 World Sports Betting SA Derby.
Winner of the G3 Sea Cottage Stakes earlier in the season, Second Base has now earned excess of R730 000.

Bred by the Nadeson Park Stud, Got The Greenlight, now a five time G1 winner, has now won eight of 16 starts for earnings of R3 150 500.

A G1 winner at  two, three and four, Got The Greenlight is well established as an extremely attractive future stud prospect.

His G1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winning sire Gimmethegreenlight, sire of the recent National Yearling Sales topper, has had a magnificent season in 2020-2021 thus far, with Got The Greenlight one of nine stakes winners to have represented Gimmethegreenlight this season.