The smart Tienie Prinsloo-trained Vercingetorix filly QuickstepGal makes it three on the trot in the Listed Ridgemont Devon Air Stakes. (Candiese Lenferna Photography).
South African Champion Sire elect Vercingetorix’s progeny ran second and third in the big one of the day on Saturday at Hollywoodbes Greyville, the Gr 1 Hollywoodbets Gold Challenge, and earlier he had accumulated yet another stakes win when the Tienie Prinsloo-trained two-year-old filly Quickstep Gal won the Listed Ridgemont Devon Air Stakes over 1400m under Kabelo Matsunyane.
It was her third win on the trot and second stakes win.
The recent Tote Gr3 Strelitzia Stakes winner opened the Hollywoodbets Gold Challenge day feature programme with a smart victory in the R200 000 event.
In the face of plenty of support for Dean Kannemeyer’s impressive recent debut winner Educator who went off at 7-10, Vercingetorix’s daughter Quickstepgal was easy to back at 11-2 and didn’t put a hoof wrong as she soared past pacesetter Vanakkam and drew away to register an eye-catching win, clocking 86,78 secs for the 1400m.
The Prinsloo powerhouse under regular pilot Kabelo Matsunyane beat Sean Tarry’s Tina Lovelace (25-1) by 2,60 lengths, with Captains Envy (11-2) shading the favourite Educator out of the Place Accumulator.
A R450 000 KZN Yearling Sale graduate, the winner is raced by KZN owner Rakesh Singh and was bred by the Greenacres Trust.
She is out of the three-time winning Jet Master mare, Victoriana.
Now a winner of her last 3 races from 4 starts, Quickstepgal took her stakes earnings to R344 376.
