Maine Chance Farms’ in-form resident stallion Querari, whose daughter Luna Wish won Friday’s Listed Lady’s Slipper Stakes, was back in the news on Tuesday when he was responsible for a pair of winners at Scottsville racecourse.
Querari’s first win on Tuesday came courtesy of his two-year-old daughter Cockney Pride, who romped home to shed her maiden, at just the second time of asking, decisively over 1200 metres.
Under jockey Craig Zackey, the Dr Marianne Thomson bred filly sped home to put 1.75 lengths between herself and runner up Maidens Prayer, with the favourite Electric Surge five lengths back in third.
Out of the Rakeen mare Lovely Jubbly, Cockney Pride was a R150 000 buy from the 2018 National Two Year Old Sale.
She is the 13th juvenile winner this season for Querari, whose previous 2yo winners in 2018-2019 include the aforementioned Luna Wish and such promising sorts as Castellano, Liberty Hall and Mill Queen.
Querari’s second winner on Tuesday came when his 3yo son Catch The Devil scored a 0.9 length win over 1950 to break his maiden for trainer Andre Nel and owner-breeder Sabine Plattner.
Catch The Devil, who has won or placed in three of his last four starts, is out of the Captain Al mare Run Like Hell and is thus bred on the same Querari/Captain Al cross as his graded stakes winning stable mates Head Honcho (G2 WSB Premier Trophy) and Kampala Campari (G3 Cup Trial).
Querari, who has been responsible for more 2yo winners this season than the likes of Var, What A Winter, and Vercingetorix, has 11 lots on offer at July’s KZN Yearling Sale.