Ridgemont Highlands’ G1 winning stallion Potala Palace looks to have a real start on his hands in the form of Katak.
The latter made it five wins from five starts when he romped home to a deceptively easy, two and a quarter length win in Sunday’s G3 99c Pocket Power Stakes (2400m) at Kenilworth racecourse.

Ridden by Bernard Fayd’Herbe for a first time, Katak strode clear in the closing stages to win as he liked, confirming himself as one of the rising stars of the South African turf.

In the process, the Piet Steyn trained Katak joined the likes of African Night Sky and Pocket Power as winners of the Winter Series, with the colt having won the G3 Variety Club Mile and G3 Legal Eagle Stakes at his last two starts.

Out of the Windrush mare Sapphire Silk, Katak took his earnings to R309 375 with Sunday’s win, and he looks destined for bigger and better things.

The colt is one of three graded stakes winners to have emerged from G1 Premier’s Champion Stakes winner Potala Palace’s small second crop (which numbers just 28 registered foals), with Katak joining the likes of Palace Of Dreams (G3 Pretty Polly Stakes) and Singforafa (G3 Strelitzia Stakes).