The Birch Bros based G2 Selangor Cup winning stallion Gold Standard has made a big impression with his small first crop. This crop includes classy four-year-old Gold Poker Game who impressed when she won the Listed Lady’s Bracelet (1600m) at Fairvew on Friday.
Beaten just over a length and a half when fourth in the G3 Splashout Victress Stakes last time out, Gold Poker Game claimed her second Listed race triumph when claiming Friday’s Listed Lady’s Bracelet.
Under Gareth Wright, the Candice Bass-Robinson trained filly raced towards the back of the field for much of Friday’s race, but flew up from last to get up and win impressively by three parts of a length.
Bred and owned by Drakenstein Stud, Gold Poker Game has now won five of 14 starts.
Gold Poker Game, promoted to first in the 2023 Listed Ardmore Jamaica Handicap, is out of the Skip Away mare Skip Poker and is a three-parts sister to the Trippi sired G3 Winter Derby winner LIquid Mercury.
Her sire Gold Standard had only 25 runners in his first crop, which produced 15 winners including G3 Hollywoodbets Diana Stakes winner Golden Hostess and G1 World Sports Betting Cape Fillies Guineas third Hold My Hand.
A son of former champion sire Trippi, whose son Charles Dickens won the recent G1 L’Ormarins King’s Plate so impressively, Gold Standard has a single lot on offer at the upcoming Cape Racing Premier Yearling Sale, and three lots on offer at the Cape Yearling Sale.