Boom sire Gimmethegreenlight has enjoyed big success over the past few weeks, with the 2012 G1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate’s big race winners including the likes of National Park, Stream Ahead, Simona and Rose In Bloom.
The son of red-hot stallion More Than Ready was at it again this weekend, when Gimmethegreenlight was responsible for four more winners.
The Gimmethegreenlight weekend quartet kicked off when his daughter Touch Of Green romped home to shed her maiden by 3.25 lengths at Fairview on Friday afternoon. Making her first start in the Eastern Cape, the
The same day saw Gimmethegreenlight gelding Saltoro Ridge score over 1600m at Greyville on polytrack. The gelded four-year-old scored a 0.9 of a length win for trainer Andre Nel and jockey Gareth Wright, with the Team Valor bred Saltoro Ridge having now won or placed in five races.
Saltoro Ridge’s close relative Vikram, who was bred by the Lammerskraal Stud, added to Gimmethegreenlight’s success when he ran out a cosy one and a quarter length winner, to shed his maiden over 1400m at Kenilworth on Saturday. Runner up at his two previous starts, the 3yo was a R675 000 buy from the 2017 Cape Premier Yearling Sale.
Vikram was one of two Saturday winners for his sire, with Gimmethegreenlight also represented by an eye catching winner at Turffontein on the day. Three-year-old filly Comaneci ran on strongly to score the first win of her career by one and a half lengths, over 1160m, -going away!
South Africa’s Leading First Crop Sire of 2015-2016, Gimmethegreenlight has made a fantastic start to his stallion career with his early crops having produced such graded stakes winners as Surcharge, Gunner, Gimme Six, Hack Green, National Park, Green Plains, Barahin, Green Pepper and , as well as Zimbabwean champion Simona.
His outstanding sire More Than Ready, whose son Better Than Ready is currently the Leading First Crop Sire in Australia, was represented by his 28th G1 winner when daughter Uni won the G1 Matriarch Stakes at on Sunday.
Gimmethegreenlight has an outstanding 13 strong draft on offer at the 2019 Cape Premier Yearling Sale, with his draft including an own sister to Fillies Guineas winner Gimme Six (Lot 40), a colt out of G2 Southern Cross Stakes winner Fairyinthewoods (Lot 51), a full-sister to G1 winner Gunner (Lot 140), and a filly out of multiple G1 winner and G1 producer Shadow Dancing (Lot174).