Maine Chance Farms’ dual G1 winning sire Erupt has had a good week this week, and the son of legendary stallion Dubawi struck twice at the Vaal on Thursday, when responsible for two impressive-looking winners.
Erupt, who has some very exciting two-year-olds this season, came up with yet another smart-looking juvenile when his daughter Ambrym made a winning debut in Thursday’s Racing240 For Racing. For You Maiden Juvenile Plate (1000m).
Trained by Johan Janse Van Vuuren, the promising two-year-old provided jockey Keagan De Melo with an armchair ride as Ambrym sauntered home to win as she liked by three and a half lengths, and she looks an exciting prospect going forward.
Ambrym joins fellow two-year-old Chilli Moon as a debut winner for Erupt this week.
Bred by Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein, Ambrym is out of Modern Muse -whose champion sire Encosta De Lago is a close relative of Erupt himself.
She was an R40 000 buy from the 2022 Cape Yearling Sale.
Erupt is also the sire of a very promising three-year-old in the form of Cosmic Star, who made it two wins from just four starts with a scintillating display in the eighth and final race at the Vaal on Thursday. The Johan Janse Van Vuuren trained gelding turned Thursday’s Next Vaal Racemeeting Tuesday 16 May MR 75 Handicap (1200m) into a one-horse race, with Cosmic Star bounding away to win as he liked by four and a quarter lengths.
Bred by Maine Chance Farms, Cosmic Star, who is out of the Querari mare Cosmic Light, looks like an exciting prospect in his own right and is another fine advertisement for his inform sire.
Erupt shares his outstanding sire Dubawi with more than 50 G1 winners as well as promising three-year-old San Antonio, who stamped himself as a potential classic contender when he won the Listed Boodles Dee Stakes, a race won previously by such Derby winners as Oath and Kris Kin, on Thursday.
Always prominent under Ryan Moore, San Antonio took the lead as they rounded the final turn and kept to his task superbly to win by a length and three quarters from the fast-finishing Alder.
San Antonio holds entries in both the English and French Derbies, together with the King Edward at Royal Ascot, with his trainer Aidan O’Brien indicating that a decision will be made on which route he will take shortly.