Rafeef star lands Marula Sprint | Cape Breeders Club

Rafeef star lands Marula Sprint

2nd Feb 2025

Ridgemont’s G1 Computaform Sprint winning sire Rafeef had another good weekend this past week.
Not only did the son of Redoute’s Choice come up with a pair of winners on Friday, but Rafeef also came up with an impressive two-year-old winner on Saturday, while his son William Robertson captured the Marula Sprint (Non-Black Type) at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Sunday.
Top-class six-year-old William Robertson defied 62.5 kgs to win the Marula Sprint in facile fashion. Under Ryan Munger, the Corne Spies trained gelding raced up with the pace early on before powering away to score as he liked by just over a length and a quarter.
Bred by Ridgemont Highlands, William Robertson has won 13 of 40 starts, with William Robertson having won three of his past five starts.
William Robertson, out of the Trippi mare Massachusetts, is a proven top-level performer with the gelding having triumphed in the 2022 G2 Topbet Mike O’Connor Joburg Spring Challenge and 2022 Tony Ruffel Stakes.
His versatile sire Rafeef also looks to have a very promising two-year-old in the form of Ireland Forever. The latter made a winning debut when victorious at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday.
Trained by Vaughan Marshall, Ireland Forever made a big splash when he stormed home, under Oswald Noach, to win the Cape Turf Club Syndicates Maiden Juvenile Plate (1000m) by a length and a half.
Bred by Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein, Ireland Forever is out of the Fort Wood mare Erin. The colt was a R1 450 000 buy from the 2024 National Yearling Sale.
South Africa’s Leading First Season Sire of 2020-2021, Rafeef, who has been responsible for three stakes winners this season, is sixth on the General Sires premiership.

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