While her international Gr1 winning sire was imported to produce classic horses and Met and July winners, the top-class 2018 East Cape Nursery winner Carlita is lethal over the Fairview 1000m!
Today’s Fairview eight-race meeting is on the turf, with the match between Carlita and the consistent March Music likely to be the highlight in the R75 000 Guineas Plate
The Fortune family travel to Fairview in Port Elizabeth on Friday where their outstanding Nursery winner Carlita bids for a second stakes victory on the trot
Promising 2yo’s smart stakes win at Fairview is the shape of things to come
The Gr1 Allan Robertson Championship at Scottsville in May could be on the radar for the talented Carlita
No action will be taken against any individual following the public outcry around the debut win of the Oratorio filly Carlita
Just 48 hours after Cheeky Wink’s smart win at Tipperary, the Kieswetter and Heffer families enjoyed another champagne moment at Sandown
Ridgemont’s Rafeef fairytale received more endorsement on the Championships Finale at Turffontein on Saturday when his daughter, Chasing Happiness, ran her eight opponents off their feet to register her second stakes success when winning the TAB Gr2 Senor Santa Stakes
The number of entries compares favourably in quantum with recent years, with 58 first entries received in 2024, 60 in 2023, 68 in 2022, 53 in 2021, 52 in 2020, 49 in 2019, and 69 in 2018
Ironically, it was a colt which provided Alan with a first Gr1 success, this being Alec and Gillian Foster’s homebred Cereus, who landed the 2001 Gold Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville, his victory completing a momentous double on the day, with the Gr2 Golden Slipper having gone the way of juvenile filly Tatler, a great-great-great grandaughter of Sun Lass!
