Oxalis Gold was a comfortable winner of the Byerley Turk on Monday. (Candiese Lenferna Photography).
Cape Breeders
The Birch Bros’ resident stallion Gold Standard enjoyed big-race success at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Monday.
The former G2 Selangor Cup winner’s daughter Oxalis Gold claimed her biggest win to date when she landed the G3 Byerley Turk in convincing fashion.
Trained by Mathew and Mike De Kock, the three-year-old made it win number four, from ten starts, when she won Monday’s R300 000 contest.
Under a well judged ride from Kabelo Matsunyane, Oxalis Gold hit the front close home and powered away to win by two lengths.
Bred and owned by Drakenstein Stud, Oxalis Gold is out of the Galileo mare Serruria.
Monday’s winner has a Rafeef half-brother (Lot 271) on offer at the National Yearling Sale.
Her sire Gold Standard made a great start to his stud career with his small first crop unleashing the graded stakes winners Golden Hostess and Hold My Hand.
Oxalis Gold hails from her sire’s third crop, with this crop also responsible for Listed Ibhayi Stakes runner up Golden Link.
Gold Standard has a single lot on offer at the National Yearling Sale -a half-brother (Lot 127) to G3 Victress Stakes winner Fresnaye, with this colt very closely related to the Trippi sired G2 Cape Punters Cup winner Hluhluwe and to the Trippi sired dam of recent HSH Princess Charlene Big Cap winner All Out For Six.
