Varsfontein Stud’s resident sire Master Of My Fate enjoyed a memorable two days on Friday and Saturday, with the imposing son of Jet Master supplying a pair of winners at Fairview on Friday and two more winners at Kenilworth on Met day on Saturday.

Master Of My Fate opened Met day in fine style when his three-year-old daughter Peut Etre Moi won the first race on the card, the World Sports Betting Maiden Plate (1400m). Under an inform S’Manga Khumalo, the Varsfontein Stud bred filly pulled clear in the closing stages to shed her maiden by a convincing two lengths.

Runner up in her three of her four previous starts, Peut Etre Moi is out of the Captain Al mare Possibly Me and she is thus bred on the same cross as Master Of My Fate’s graded stakes winning daughters Basadi Faith and Pretty Betty.

Master Of My Fate’s second success on Kenilworth came when his son Han Solo captured the 11th, and penultimate, race on the card, the Prime Trees MR 84 Handicap (1400m).
Trained by Glen Kotzen, Han Solo motored home, under Richard Fourie, to win going away by a length and a half.
Bred by his part-owner Judy Wintle, the consistent Han Solo, now a three time winner, has either won or finished second in each of his last four starts.

Master Of My Fate also went close to enjoying graded race success at Kenilworth on Saturday, with his son Holy Warrior just touched off when second in the G2 New Turf Carriers Western Cape Stayers and three-year-old son Zapatillas running on strongly to get third in Saturday’s G3 Cape Racing Politician Stakes, under 60kgs.

The Varsfontein resident’s G1 Jonsson Workwear Garden Province Stakes winning daughter Zarina also caught the eye when fourth, to the mighty Captain’s Ransom, in Saturday’s G1 Schweppes Majorca Stakes.

South Africa’s second Leading Sire by stakes in 2020-2021, Master Of My Fate has five lots on offer at this week’s Cape Premier Yearling Sale and a further eight lots on the Cape Yearling Sale.