Varsfontein Stud’s bang inform stallion Master Of My Fate dominated proceedings at Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Monday when the son of Jet Master was responsible for four winners on the eight-race card.
Remarkably, the progeny of Master Of My Fate won races three, four, five and six on Monday.
His first success on Monday came when the Justin Snaith trained Princess Izzy won the third race, the Cape Racing Sales Maiden Plate (F&M) (1400m), in convincing style. Sent off tote favourite, the three-year-old was given a fine, front-running ride by Grant Van Niekerk.
Van Niekerk set a slow pace up front, which quickened up as the field turned for home. Princess Izzy kept finding in the closing stages and drew off to record a comfortable one-and-a-half length maiden win, with another Master Of My Fate filly, Epikleros, finishing third.
Bred by Varsfontein Stud, Princess Izzy was making the fourth start of her career with the filly having finished third and second in her two previous starts.
Out of the What A Winter mare Destiny Dancer, Princess Izzy was a R650 000 buy from the 2022 August Two Year Old Sale.
Master Of My Fate struck again in the very next race when his Candice Bass-Robinson trained Lord Fyfield won the Gulf Racing Club Maiden Plate (1800m), with Lord Fyfield beating his paternal half-brother Masterofallstorms into second place. Under Aldo Domeyer, the Master Of My Fate colt raced well off the pace early on, before powering home down the centre of the track to get up and win by half a length.
Bred by Hemel ‘N Aarde Stud, three-year-old Lord Fyfield, who is due to be gelded, is out of the Seventh Rock mare Seventh Storm.
His sire struck yet again when the flashy Master Of My Fate colt Avignon came with a strong late rattle, under Richard Fourie, to claim the Cape Turf Club Syndicates Maiden Plate (1800m) by three parts of a length. One of two winners for trainer Piet Botha on Monday, the three-year-old had finished third last time out.
Bred by Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein, Avignon is out of the Var mare Var Countess and is thus bred on the same cross as G1 winning champion Tempting Fate.
Master Of My Fate’s fourth and final success on Monday came when his well-bred daughter Fatal Gem ran out a convincing winner of the The Kings Club Maiden Plate (F and M) (1600m). Under Malesela Katjedi, the Brett Crawford trained three-year-old powered home down the centre of the course to get up and break her maiden by a length and three-quarters.
Trying the 1600m trip for the first time on Monday, the Drakenstein Stud bred and owned Fatal Gem is out of the Trippi mare Sapphire Gem.
Her inform sire had also enjoyed notable success over the weekend, where Master Of My Fate son Atticus Finch, who holds an entry in the G2 Allied Steelrode- Onamission Charity Mile, made it three wins in a row when he downed a high-class field to win the TAB Rugby Pinnacle Stakes (1600m) at Turffontein on Saturday.
Another son of Master Of My Fate, Pirate Prince, was just touched off when second in Sunday’s Listed PinkDrive Michaelmas Handicap.