Maine Chance Farms’ hugely successful resident sire Querari is enjoying another tremendous season in 2018-2019 and the G1 winning son of Oasis Dream was back in the headlines this weekend thanks to his three-year-old son Sacred Castle.
The latter made a smashing debut at Turffontein on Saturday, when Sacred Castle romped on debut to score a facile two and a quarter length win over 1160 metres.
Sacred Castle was steered home by in-form jockey Carlos Herrera Gomez, who looked back over his shoulder several times before easing the colt home to score as he liked.
Bred by Maine Chance, the Paul Peter trained Sacred Castle was a R70 000 buy from the 2017 National 2YO Sale.
He is one of several high class 3yos representing his G1 Premio Presidente della Repubblica winning sire this season, with Querari’s other exciting sophomores in 2018-2019 including the likes of Pleasedtomeetyou (Sophomore Sprint), Arianos Shadow (KZN Fillies Guineas Trial), and G3 Tony Ruffel Stakes runner up Inexhaustible.
Querari, whose other notable performers this season include impressive G2 Premier Trophy winner Head Honcho, could have a strong hand on Sun Met day. He could to be represented by runners in all of the G1 Sun Met (Head Honcho, Kampala Campari), G1 Betting World Cape Flying Championship (Pleasedtomeetyou), CTS 1600 (Dagmar) and Summer Juvenile Stakes (Rio Querari, Mon Cherie).
Excitingly, Querari could also be represented in the 2019 Hong Kong Derby -for his son Graceandmercy (formerly Monks Hood) has been entered for that prestigious Sha Tin feature.
The half-brother to high class performers Quidura and Quasillo has 15 lots on next week’s Cape Premier Yearling Sale.