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Vercingetorix Assumes The Mantle
That Vercingetorix has seamlessly taken over the mantle of his illustrious sire at Maine Chance is best illustrated by the fact that he currently leads the General Sires List, with his late sire in second place
That Vercingetorix has seamlessly taken over the mantle of his illustrious sire at Maine Chance is best illustrated by the fact that he currently leads the General Sires List, with his late sire in second place
Following his spectacular breakthrough into the elite stallion ranks, one can safely say that Vercingetorix is fast filling the void left by his recently-deceased sire Silvano
With South African racing at a standstill for the foreseeable future, it is perhaps a good time to take a look at which stallions have been enjoying a good season
Mike de Kock and Callan Murray got punters off to a happy start in the R1,57 million Turffontein Pick 6 on Saturday
The Vercingetorix colt Ikigai ran out a facile winner of the R200 000 Gr3 Tony Ruffel Stakes at Turffontein on Saturday
Jumping from the widest draw on Saturday, African Warrior, winner of the Gr3 Godolphin Barb earlier this season, proved that he as a bright future
Maine Chance Farms multiple Gr1 winning stallion Vercingetorix continued with his exceptional first season when he produced a third stakes winner at Fairview on Friday.
Punters took a few body blows early on in both regional Bipot bets on Saturday, with the red hot odds-on favourite General Franco running a dismal last in the Kenilworth opener.
Just a week after his stakes strike with a 1-2 in the Listed East Cape Nursery, Maine Chance stallion Vercingetorix produced his first graded winner
The R1 million Gr1 Douglas Whyte Stakes Grade is the opening leg of the projected R15 million Pick 6 pool at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday
A Cape jockey has told of the enormous relief and the burden lifted from his shoulders on Friday after two well-known racing men took the cudgels up on his behalf some months ago to defend the father of four against an NHRA charge
A Pick 6 carryover of R2 million is set to take the exotic pool to R15 million, while the World Pool Gr3 Gold Cup sees a Quartet carryover of R1 million and a likely pool of R5 million