The Candice Bass-Robinson-trained Querari filly Rainbow Lorikeet landed a third stakes victory and a first Graded win. (Picture: Wayne Marks)
Cape Breeders
Maine Chance Farms’ top-class sire Querari made a big impression at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday. The son of Oasis Dream had a treble of winners on Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas day, with this trio including G3 SplashOut Victress Stakes winner Rainbow Lorikeet.
Winner of both the 2024 Listed Schweppes Cape Fillies Classic and 2024 Listed East Cape Paddock Stakes, the Candice Bass-Robinson trained Rainbow Lorikeet picked up her first graded win when landing Saturday’s SplashOut Victress Stakes.
Under the inform Aldo Domeyer, the four-year-old daughter of Querari stayed on gamely in Saturday’s R225 000 contest to win by three parts of a length.
Bred by Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein, Rainbow Lorikeet has won five of 17 starts for earnings of R632,650.
Rainbow Lorikeet is out of the Silvano mare Nightingale and is thus bred on the same Querari/Silvano cross as the likes of Bavarian Beauty, Cosmic Light, Cosmic Speed, Homely Girl and Wonderwall.
Her sire has made a flying start with his early two-year-olds this season and Querari came up with another two-year-old winner on Saturday.
Promising colt Parental Guidance became Querari’s third two-year-old winner, this season, from just five runners when he won the first race at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth.
The Paul Reeves-trained colt made an impressive winning debut when running out a two-and-a-half length winner of the Pragmatic Commonwealth Plate.
A half-brother to champion Proceed, the Laurence Wernars bred colt joins the likes of fellow debut winners Black Cheetah and Siesta Sunset as two-year-old winners for Querari in 2024-2025.
Querari is currently South Africa’s Leading Sire of 2YOs for the current season.
Parental Guidance is out of the Captain Al mare Xplosive Kiss and is bred on the same cross as graded stakes winners Head Honcho, Kampala Campari and Questioning.
Querari is also the sire of well-bred filly From A Distance, who got off the mark on Saturday when victorious in the Ozow Maiden Plate (F&M) over 1200 metres.
Under Aldo Domeyer, the Drakenstein Stud bred and owned three-year-old stormed home to shed her maiden by two lengths.
Trained by Candice Bass-Robinson, From A Distance had finished second or third in three of her five starts before Saturday’s win.
