Quickstepgal is led in after winning the Gr 1 WSB Cape Fillies Guineas (Picture: Wayne Marks)
The 2025 WSB Cape Fillies Guineas and Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas winners’ pedigree profiles
Sarah Whitelaw
The G1 World Sports Betting Cape Fillies Guineas and G1 Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas remain two of South Africa’s most important contests for three-year-olds.
This year’s winners Quickstepgal and Jan Van Goyen both made big impression when winning those respective features.
Both Quickstepgal and Jan Van Goyen have Jet Master as a grandsire, with that champion the broodmare sire of Quickstepgal and the sire of Master Of My Fate, the sire of Jan Van Goyen.
Pedigree Profile – Quickstepgal
Quickstepgal, who provided connections with a fairytale result in the World Sports Betting Cape Fillies Guineas, is certainly bred to be classy. Winner of last season’s G3 Tote Strelitzia Stakes and Listed Ridgemont Devon Air Stakes, Quickstepgal is the second Cape Fillies Guineas winner, and 14th G1 winner, for her sire Vercingetorix. The latter is also responsible for 2021 winner Chansonette.
South Africa’s Champion Sire, Leading Sire of 2YOs and Leading Sire of 3Yos in 2024-2025, Vercingetorix was responsible for 23 individual stakes winners last season.
The son of Silvano is again heading the South African General Sires premiership for 2025-2025, with Vercingetorix also heading the country’s Leading Sires of 3YOs premiership.
Among Vercingetorix’s black type winners in 2025-2026 are the graded stakes winners Quickstepgal, Callmegetrix, The Ultimate King, and Princess Of Gaul. The latter ran fourth to Quickstepgal in the World Sports Betting Cape Fillies Guineas.
His daughter Quickstepgal, a full-sister to the winning Lady Loxton and half-sister to the winners Ziva La Winter and Victorious Diva, is out of the smart racemare Victoriana. The latter won three times, up to 1200m, and ran second, on her just her third start, in the G3 Champagne Stakes.
Rated good enough to contest the 2008 G1 Avontuur Estate Cape Fillies Guineas, Victoriana is a half-sister to 2014-2015 Equus Champion Older Filly/Mare Hammie’s Hooker (by Trippi) and Gem King.
The latter, a Master Of My Fate three-parts brother to Victoriana, won both the G3 World Sports Betting Variety Club Mile and G3 World Sports Betting Legal Eagle Stakes in 2022. The latter race saw Gem King account for subsequent July winning champion Winchester Mansion by three-parts of a length.
Victoriana’s dam Gem Queen, a twice winning daughter of Damascus Gate, was produced by the winning Mr Justice mare Just Susan. The latter was a half-sister to a trio of stakes winners led by G1 South African Fillies Sprint winner Susan’s Dream.
Gem Queen hails from the same female line as dual July winner Pamphlet.
Victoriana was sired by seven time South African Champion Sire Jet Master, whose more than 70 stakes winners included the G1 Cape Fillies Guineas winners Ebony Flyer and In The Fast Lane.
Pedigree Profile – Jan Van Goyen
Jan Van Goyen, South Africa’s Champion 2YO Colt of 2024-2025, is one of three Equus Champions, thus far, sired by G2 Premier Trophy/G2 Peninsula Handicap victor Master Of My Fate.
The latter, whose progeny include 34 black type winners and a further 37 stakes placed runners, is also the sire of last season’s Champion 2YO Filly Golden Palm, with Master Of My Fate son Tempting Fate crowned Equus Champion 2YO Colt of 2019-2020.
To date, Master Of My Fate has been responsible for six G1 winners with this tally headed by the aforementioned champions.
His other G1 winners are 2024 Betway Summer Cup winner Atticus Finch, 2020 Premiers Champion Stakes winner Sentbydestiny, and 2021 Jonsson Workwear Garden Province Stakes winner Zarina.
His brilliant son Jan Van Goyen, also winner of last season’s G1 World Pool Moment Of The Day Premiers Champion Stakes, is out of the twice winning Oratorio mare Daydream Believer.
The latter is a half-sister to G3 Byerley Turk winner Phantom Fighter and speedy Listed Umngeni Handicap winner Barbosa.
Phantom Fighter, like Jan Van Goyen’s own sire, was sired by Jet Master.
Jan Van Goyen’s granddam was the classy racemare Fine Feather, winner of seven races including the G3 Strelitizia Stakes.
A half-sister to the high-class producer Kindling (whose progeny include the graded stakes winning full-sisters Captain’s Flame and Fragrant Al), Fine Feather is directly descended in female line from English Oaks winner Ghuznee.
The latter is the ancestress of a host of top-class performers including unbeaten US superstar Flightline.
