Mauritzfontein’s blue blooded Kingmambo stallion Ideal World enjoyed feature race success at Fairview on Friday afternoon.
The sire’s son Kimberley Star showed his versatility when he powered home to get up close home and win the Fairview Merchants over 1200m, scoring a cosy one length win in the feature for trainer Alan Greeff and jockey Greg Cheyne.

Bred by Wilgerbosdrift and Mauritzfontein, the gelded four-year-old Kimberley Star was a R120 000 buy from the 2016 National 2YO Sale.

Kimberley Star, a former East Cape Champion at two, has now won five times, with the gelding’s previous victories including the Listed Champion Juvenile Cup back in 2017. The versatile galloper, who also contested the 2018 G1 Investec Cape Derby, has now won from 1200-2000 metres.

He was one of two winners for his sire on Friday, with Ideal World gelding Zaratos breaking his maiden over 1400m at Greyville on the same day.

Out of the Strike Smartly mare Advance Warning, Friday’s Merchants winner is bred on the same Ideal World/Strike Smartly cross as 2016 G3 Track And Ball Derby winner Cape Speed.

Kimberley Star’s sire Ideal World is responsible for a host of high class performers, with his star performers headed by the Equus Champions Smart Call and Hermoso Mundo, and fellow graded stakes winners Rainbow Bridge, Zante, Inverroche, Zen Arcade, and Cape Speed and high class fillies Coral Bay and Persian Rug.

A half-brother to French G1 winner Romantica, Ideal World is a son of former champion racemare and G1 Breeders’ Cup Filly & Mare Turf heroine Banks Hill.