Ridgemont Highlands’ G1 winning sire Potala Palace has made a very impressive start to his stud career, and the son of Singspiel came up with his second graded stakes winning 2yo this season when his daughter Singforafa won the G3 The Independent On Saturday Personal Finance Strelitzia Stakes  at Greyville on Friday night.

Trained by Tobie Spies (who also trained the runner up Me Time), the 2yo Singforafa went out to make much of the running and stayed on gamely to post a one and a quarter length score in Friday’s R200 000 2yo feature under jockey Craig Zackey.

Singforafa, now a winner of two of only four starts, joins G3 Pretty Polly Stakes winner Palace Of Dreams as a second juvenile graded winner this season to represent Potala Palace.

The latter, whose G1 WSB Cape Fillies Guineas winning half-sister Front And Centre ran second in Friday night’s  G2 KRA Fillies Guineas,  had just 28 runners in his first crop (current 3yos) but they include G3 BMW Politician Stakes runner up Senatla, feature race winner Dalai’s Promise, R820 000 plus earner Palace Chapel (one of two Potala Palace runners in Saturday’s G1 Computaform Sprint), and G3 Man O’War Sprint runner up Russian Prince.

From the same female line as outstanding sires Sadler’s Wells, Nureyev, Reform and Fairy King, Potala Palace also made a splash at the recent Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale, where his only yearling on offer made R475 000.