Maine Chance Farms (Pty) Ltd’s star stallion Vercingetorix has made a bright start to the new season. Silvano’s son made it four winners from two days when supplying a pair of winners at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Wednesday.
Vercingetorix gelding Rosh Kedesh did well to overcome a poor draw when he ran out a comfortable winner of Wednesday’s GallopTV Youtube Channel MR 88 Handicap (1200m). Under Keagan De Melo, the Dean Kannemeyer trained gelding powered into the lead 200m from home and stayed on to score convincingly by just under a length and a half.
Second or third in each of his three starts before Wednesday’s win, the Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein-bred five-year-old has now won won three times.
Rosh Kedesh, out of the Fort Wood mare Mount Carmel, was a R450 000 buy from 2021 National Yearling Sale.
His sire struck in the next race when Vercingetorix filly Ubukhwebezana won the Hollywoodbets Bright Future FM 78 Handicap over 1200 metres. Under Sean Veale, the four-year-old powered home to score by nearly a length and a quarter.
The MJ Odendaal-trained Ubukhwebezana, who was making it back-to-back wins, is out of the Noordhoek Flyer mare Felicity Flyer. The filly was bred by Maine Chance.
The inform Vercingetorix had enjoyed another double at Fairview the day before when his son Torix Night won the third race on Tuesday and daughter Articuno won the sixth.
Runner up on the South African General Sires List last season, and sire of the first two home in the 2024 G1 Hollywoodbets Durban July, Vercingetorix has 15 lots on offer at the August Two Year Old Sale.