Physically, Imperial State takes after her dam, but as Carl de Vos remarks: “She throws better looking foals than herself, Follow Me being one of them. She was a very nice yearling.”
The R175 000 Gr3 Fillies Mile is run today on the Turffontein standside track at weight-for-age plus penalties for graded race victories.
Khumalo bagged the feature with the consistent Paul Matchett filly Gee For Go proving too strong in the R100 000 Gr3 Fillies Mile
Trainer Paul Peter hero worshipped veteran Ormond Ferraris as a youngster and the Turffontein conditioner celebrated an emotional victory
Mike de Kock’s yard has been in a rich vein of feature form and the multiple champion looks likely to make it a Gr3 Fillies Mile double
Mike de Kock and Sheikh Hamdan bin Rashid al Maktoum celebrated a super feature double at Turffontein on Saturday
After the tote chaos of 24 hours earlier, the betting public climbed into the Turffontein Sunday exotic with vigour
The Drakenstein Stud-owned daughter of Charge Forward came out three weeks ago and paralysed her opposition to the tune of some seven lengths
Sean Tarry produced his second successive feature exacta on the trot at Turffontein on Saturday when the Dynasty filly Smiling Blue Eyes showed good improvement
With Maleficent winging her way to Cape Town for the Fillies Guineas, the Gr3 Fillies Mile gets thrown wide open and the focus falls on Mike de Kock’s unbeaten New Approach filly Dame Eleanor
The beautiful grey daughter of Fort Wood caught part owner Joe Van Streepen’s eye when he shrewdly picked her out of the National Yearling Sale catalogue based on her pedigree
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
