Maine Chance Farms’ outstanding stallion Vercingetorix has ended 2023 on a high note with the champion son of Silvano responsible for a slew of impressive winners during December.
Vercingetorix’s great form continued when he came up with four winners on Saturday.
His first success on Saturday came when his son La Moohal won the fourth race at Turffontein. Trained, like Vercingetorix, by Mike de Kock, the gelded three-year-old pulled out more in the closing stages of the www.tab4racing.com Maiden Plate (1600m) to score, under Diego De Gouveia, by a head. Another son of Vercingetorix, Thunee Playa, was back in third and he should break his maiden very soon.
Bred and owned by Al Adiyaat South Africa, La Moohal was making his fifth start on Saturday with the gelding having finished second last time out.
Vercingetorix came up with two eye catching winners at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday, with his sons The Grey King and Oriental Charm landing races three and four respectively.
Three-year-old The Grey King made it back to back wins when he ran out a ready winner of Saturday’s play.tabonline.co.za Class 4 (1400) for Justin Snaith and Grant Van Niekerk.
Bred by Maine Chance Farms, The Grey King hit the front someway from home and kept finding more to score a shade cosily by three parts of a length.
Out of the Redoute’s Choice mare Zappy Choice, The Grey King has a full-brother on offer at the 2024 Cape Racing Premier Yearling Sale Powered by Tattersalls.
His paternal half-brother Oriental Charm made it two wins from just five starts when he won Saturday’s Cape Summer Season Of Champions Class 4 (1400m) in convincing style.
Trained by Brett Crawford, the Vercingetorix colt, who had won on debut, showed plenty of courage when he stayed on, under Grant Van Niekerk, to win by a length and a quarter, with yet another Vercingetorix son, Unicorn Alert, back in third spot.
Bred by Cheveley Stud, Oriental Charm is out of the Greys Inn mare Souk.
Vercingetorix ended the day on a high when his three-year-old daughter Vix Princess won the ninth and final race at Turffontein on Saturday.
The Tony Peter trained filly romped home to land the Next Turffontein Racemeeting Thursday 4 January MR 84 Handicap (1400m) by two and a half lengths.
Bred by Maine Chance Farms, Vix Princess, a three-part sister to the Vercingetorix sired G1 winner Chansonette, has won twice from just five starts.
Out of the Mr Greeley mare Celigny, Vix Princess was a R500 000 buy from the 2022 National Yearling Sale.