Maine Chance Farms’ red hot sire Vercingetorix had a memorable four timer over the weekend. The champion son of six times South African champion sire Silvano had a treble of winners on Saturday with Vercingetorix’s high-class son Gladatorian providing his sire with a fourth win on the past weekend when scoring at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday.
Vercingetorix looks to have a top-notch three-year-old to his name this season in the form of Marauding Horde. The latter, an impressive winner of the Listed TAB Hawwaam Stakes at his previous start, made it three wins on the bounce when he won the sixth race at Turffontein on Saturday.
Despite having to concede weight to older rivals, the Mike de Kock trained colt proved too strong for his rivals, with the Marco Van Rensburg ridden Marauding Horde running out an impressive one and three quarter length winner of the Play Soccer 6,10 and 13 MR 80 Handicap.
Bred by Maine Chance Farms, Marauding Horde has now won three of five starts and he looks destined for bigger and better things.
The colt is out of the Indigo Magic mare My Lady Bluff and is thus bred on the same Vercingetorix/Indigo Magic as G1 Gold Medallion winner Ambiorix.
Marauding Horse was one of three winners on Saturday for his inform sire, with Vercingetorix gelding Voorloopertjie winning the fifth race at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth and another son of the sire, San Pedro, landing the spoils in the eighth race at the Cape course.
The Maine Chance resident is also the sire of 2023 G2 Post Merchants winner Gladatorian, who accounted for a high-class field when victorious in the Unistar Inks Pinnacle Stakes (1200m) on Sunday. The Erasmus Thoroughbreds bred four-year-old showed class in holding off former Equus Champion Good Traveller to score by nearly two lengths.
Out of the Dynasty mare Harvard Crimson, Gladatorian has now won six times and he has earned R867 438 in prize money.
Vercingetorix has been responsible for four black type winners in 2023-2024 and his progeny have already earned more than R13.236 million in stakes this season.
The former G1 Jebel Hatta winner has a stellar draft on offer at the upcoming National Yearling Sale, including a three-parts brother (Lot 167) to five time G1 winner and Equus Champion Hawwaam, and a three-parts sister (Lot 88) to Summer Pudding, South Africa’s Horse Of The Year in 2019-2020.