Uncategorized

Mauritzfontein’s inform stallion Danon Platina has been churning out the winners of late.
The champion son of Deep Impact was at it again when Danon Platina came up with two smart winners at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday.

Danon Platina gelding Great Plains, winner of last season’s G3 Cape Classic, showed his class when he defeated a high-class field to win Saturday’s Lucky Fish Mystic Dash Conditions Plate (1400m).
Under a well judged ride from Andrew Fortune, the Justin Snaith trained four-year-old came with a late rattle to get up and win by half a length.

In the process, Great Plains accounted for last season’s G2 World Sports Guineas winner Sail The Seas as well as 2023 G1 Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas winner Snow Pilot.
Bred by Drakenstein Stud, the Nick Jonsson owned Great Plains has won five of 14 starts, with the gelding having also finished third in both last season’s G1 Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas and G2 Independent On Saturday Drill Hall Stakes.

Great Plains, who is out of the Var mare Mara, was a R700 000 buy from the 2023 Cape Premier Yearling Sale.

Danon Platina is also the sire of promising three-year-old Pomp It Up. The latter made it two wins from just four starts when he won Saturday’s Hollywoodbets Bright Future Class 4 (1200m).
Under JP Van Der Merwe, the Justin Snaith trained colt stormed home to score by half a length.
Bred by Maine Chance Farms, Pomp It Up races for Greg Bortz, Etienne Braun, Gina Goldsmith, and the Greenacres Trust.

Pomp It Up is out of the Silvano mare Possibility.

Japanese Champion Danon Platina, whose son Landoftherisingsun won the recent Listed Settlers Trophy, is set to be represented by his son Whispering Death in Saturday’s G2 Jackpot City Dingaans.

Mauritzfontein’s successful sire Ideal World had a good day at Turffontein on Saturday, when his son Diwali Rocket won the third race and daughter Cape Lights landed race six.

Two-year-old Diwali Rocket got off the mark at the fourth time of asking when he won the For Hospitality Bookings Call 011 681 1796 Maiden Juvenile Plate over 1600 metres.

Under Raymond Danielson, the Lorenzo Karriem trained gelding unleashed a smart turn of foot which saw him get up to win, going away, by a length and a quarter.

Bred by Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein, Diwali Rocket was a R300 000 buy from the 2023 August Two Year Old Sale.

Diwali Rocket is out of the Jet Master mare Jet Trail, making him bred on the same cross as the Ideal World sired Horse Of The Year Rainbow Bridge.

Ideal World is also the sire of Cape Lights, who claimed her fourth career when she won Saturday’s Take A Bet Wina Numba Numba Pinnacle Stakes over 1400 metres.

Making a mockery of her 16-1 starting price, the Robbie Sage trained four-year-old stormed home to get up and win by nearly half a length.

In the process, Cape Lights defeated several classy fillies including 2023 G2 Wilgerbosdrift Gauteng Fillies Guineas winner Lady Of Power and 2023 G1 Douglas Whyte Thekwini Stakes heroine Bavarian Beauty.

Bred and owned by Ian Van Schalkwyk, Cape Lights is out of the Pathfork mare Secret Star.

Her sire Ideal World is responsible for 31 stakes winners, including Met winning champions Rainbow Bridge and Smart Call, and a further 22 black type horses.

The legendary late Deep Impact, whose champion son Danon Platina stands at Mauritzfontein, had another fantastic posthumous weekend this week.
Not only did Deep Impact brilliant two-year-old son Auguste Rodin win Saturday’s G1 Vertem Futurity Trophy Stakes at Doncaster, Deep Impact’s three-year-old son Ask Victor More captured the G1 Kikuka Sho (Japanese St Leger) at Hanshin the following day.

A seventh European G1 winner for Deep Impact (whose subsequent G1 Qipco 2000 Guineas winning son Saxon Warrior captured the same race back in 2017), Auguste Rodin provided his trainer Aidan O’Brien with an eleventh win in the Vertem Futurity with a stellar performance in Saturday’s G1 feature for two-year-olds.
Auguste Rodin was odds-on on Friday but drifted due in part to the heavy ground before he ran out a ready winner from Epictetus and the wayward Holloway Boy.
They split into two groups when the stalls opened with Salt Lake City heading Epictetus and Auguste Rodin in the small group on the stands’ side with Holloway Boy trailing the slightly bigger group at the other side of the track.
He travelled well in a first-time visor under Danny Tudhope and hit the front with two furlongs to go, but he appeared to get lonely and drifted markedly over to the stands’ side group.
By the time he got over Auguste Rodin hit the front and he kept on well to beat Epictetus by three and a half lengths with Holloway Boy third.

Out of Galileo’s multiple G1 winning daughter Rhododendron (whose full-brother Flying The Flag stands in South Africa), Auguste Rodin has now won three of four starts with the blue blooded colt having triumped in the G2 KPMG Champions Juvenile Stakes last time out.

Deep Impact struck again at the highest level on Sunday when his son Ask Victor More emulated his sire when victorious in the G1 Kikuka Sho.
The Yasuhito Tamura-trained Ask Victor More held on for a memorable success in the final leg of the Japanese Triple Crown, the Kikuka Sho, defying Boldog Hos and Justin Palace to record his first Group 1 victory of his career, under a well-timed ride from Hironobu Tanabe.

The son of Deep Impact was third in the G1 Tokyo Yushun and fifth in the Satsuki Sho earlier this year but got a deserved elite success after tracking tearaway leader Seiun Hades throughout and then assuming the lead at the top of the straight.

Justin Palace was the first to issue a challenge, before Boldog Hos, under a determined ride from Hayato Yoshida, surged down the outside. He drove late at Ask Victor More, but the inside colt held him at bay to win by a nose on the line, with Justin Place half a length back in third.