Kinda Wonderful wins the Listed Irridescence Stakes cosily (Wayne Marks Photography)
Gimmethegreenlight’s eleventh individual stakes winner this season, the Eric Sands-trained filly Kinda Wonderful looks to be a classic prospect.
She sat in a one out position with cover near the back of a five horse field in the Listed Irridescence Stakwes over 1500m at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday and showed a good turn of foot to win by an easy two lengths under Craig Zackey.
However, her time was almost a full two seconds slower than the Langerman which was run later on.
Her dam by Black Minnaloushe was unplaced but is a half-sister to Listed winners Galileo’s Night (Galileo) and Croc Valley (Western Winter) and to stakes-placed Komatipoort (western Winter).
Kinda Wonderful’s dam Outrage has now produced two Irridescence Stakes winners. Her first foal Third Runway, a full-sister to Kinda Wonderful, won the Irridescence and later proved herself a classic sort by winning the Gr 2 Western Cape Fillies Championship.
It was thus a wise decision by Varsfontein Stud to go back to Gimmethegreenlight.
Kinda Wonderful could follow in Third Runway’s footsteps.
Third Runway went on to finish third in the Gr 1 Cape Fillies Guiineas and fourth in the Gr 2 Cartier Sceptre Stakes over 1200m and was later second in the Gr 3 Chapagne Stakes over 1200m. However, she then went off the boil.
Kinda Wonderful is owned by Canine Solutions CC(D C O’Driscoll), Mauritzfontein (Pty) Ltd(J B Jell), N P Malherbe, Nick & Val McFall, A E Sands & Wilgerbosdrift (Pty) Ltd (M Slack) and was bought for R650,000 at the BSA August Two-year-old Sale.
Gimmethegreenlight heads the list in the number of stakes winners for the season with eleven.
Vercingetorix is on ten but those ten have only won 12 stakes races between them compared to the 21 stakes races Gimmethegreenlight’s stakes winners have won between them.
That statistic has helped Gimmethegreenlight to have a commanding lead in the national sires championship of close to R6 million.
