For a second year in a row, Maine Chance Farms’ inform sire Querari provided the winner of the G2 East Coast Radio Tibouchina Stakes (1400m), with that race run at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday.

Not only did Querari filly Caya Coco land the 2021 Tibouchina Stakes, Querari fillies Homely Girl and Supreme Quest finished first and third respectively in Saturday’s Tibouchina Stakes.

Winner of the 2021 Listed Lady’s Slipper Stakes, the Johan Janse Van Vuuren trained Homely Girl had finished second in the Listed Syringa Handicap last time out but went one better on Saturday with a gutsy display.
Under Keagan De Melo, the three-year-old hit the front close home and pulled out more in the closing stages to hold off runner up Ecstatic Green and score a shade cosily by just over three-parts of a length.

It was a welcome change of fortune for Homely Girl (who benefitted from a blinker strike) had finished second in each of her last three races.

Out of the Silvano mare Sherry, and bred on the same Querari/Silvano cross as fellow graded stakes winners Cosmic Light and Wonderwall, the Narrow Creek Stud bred Homely Girl, third in this season’s G1 WSB Cape Fillies Guineas, has now won three of 12 starts with Saturday’s win her biggest to date.

Querari had also enjoyed success earlier in the day on Saturday when his two-year-old son Formagear made a winning debut over 1200 metres.

Currently the Leading Sire of 2YOs in South Africa, by stakes, for 2021-2022, Querari has a single lot on offer at the 2022 CTS Farm Yearling Sale in the form of a filly (Lot 37) bred on the same cross as Homely Girl!