Maine Chance Farms’ increasingly successful sire Vercingetorix had yet another day to remember at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday where Silvano’s champion son was responsible for a pair of graded stakes winners.

His two-year-old son Cousin Casey, winner of the Listed Cell C Sharks Gatecrasher Stakes last time out, made it three wins in a row when he won Saturday’s G2 Durban Golden Horseshoe over 1400 metres.
Under Grant Van Niekerk, the Glen Kotzen trained colt powered home to score by nearly a length, while accounting for some very promising two-year-olds.

Bred by Riyo Stud, Cousin Casey has now won three of just five starts and looks a potential classic horse for next season.
Out of the Casey Tibbs mare Bretton Woods, the Vercingetorix colt was a R375 000 buy from the 2021 National Yearling Sale.

Val D’Orcia became Vercingetorix’s second graded stakes winner on Saturday, and his sire’s 21st stakes winner overall when he won Saturday’s G2 Post Merchants (1200m) at Greyville.
Under Warren Kennedy, the Paul Peter trained three-year-old pulled out more in the closing stages to account for G1 winner, and Equus Champion, Good Traveller, by half a length.

Bred by the Winterbach Stud, Val D’Orcia has now won five of 12 starts, with the gelding having finished second at Turffontein last time out.

Val D’Orcia, who is out of the Spectrum mare Tuscan Lass, is the fifth graded stakes winner to have emerged from Vercingetorix’s current three-year-old crop, with this crop also having produced the G1 winners Alesian Chief, Ambiorix, Chansonette and Pomp And Power.