One Stripe winning at Gulfstream Park in the USA (Photo by Ryan Thompson/Coglianese Photos)
It seems just the other day Vaughan Marshall went to R1.4 million on behalf of Rikesh Sewgoolam to land One Stripe after describing the One World colt’s breeze up gallop as the best he had ever seen at a Ready To Run Sale.
Marshall highlighted One Stripe’s phenomenal stride rate, high-speed action, and effortless way of moving when talking about that breeze up gallop.
Four years on the horse is a highly valuable stallion prospect following tremendous success in both South Africa and the USA and he is in quarantine in England awaiting a return flight to his home country of South Africa.
Rikesh now owns him in partnership with Hollywood Racing and the latter’s involvement means One Stripe is likely to stand at Ridgemont.
Ridgemont is owned by the Kieswetter family and Hollywood Racing race and breed horses in partnership with both Ridgemont and the Kieswetter-owned Barnane Stud in Ireland.
Marshall’s intuition proved to be spot on as One Stripe went on to not only win the Gr 1 Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas but he also became only the third three-year-old in the last 50 years to win the L’Ormarins King’s Plate, following Gimmethegreenlight and Jet Dark.
Gimmethegreenlight won it in 2012 and was the first three-year-old to have won the iconic Gr 1 mile event since Yataghan in 1973.
Before those two Gr 1 wins One Stripe had won two Gr 3s as a two-year-old and a Gr 2 as a three-year-old.
In the USA, where he was trained by Graham Motion, he won his third start in an Allowance Optional Claiming race over a mile on the turf at Gulfstream Park in a time 0,4 seconds outside the course record.
He followed with a second place finish, beaten a neck, in the Gr 1 Pegasus World Cup Turf Invitational over a mile and one furlong on the turf at Gulfstream Park under his South African pilot Gavin Lerena, beaten by his stablemate Test Score.
Next up he finished a 1,75 length second to Zulu Kingdom in the Gr 1 Maker’s Mark Mile Stakes at Keenelend. He beat the like of Notable Speech in this race, the latter being the English 2000 Guineas winner, the Breeders Cup Turf Mile winner and winner of six Gr 1s overall.
One Stripe then ran in the iconic Saratoga meet and finished a fine close up third under Lerena to Deterministic and Test Score in the Gr 1 Manhattan Stakes over a mile and one-and-a-half furlongs.
One Stripe showed his typically superb acceleration and storming finish in that last start.
He had to then be retired due to a stress related injury in his right foreleg.
One Stripe’s father One World (Captain Al) won the Gr 1 wfa Met and made a great start as a stallion, setting a new freshman record of 30 individual winners, breaking the previous record of 22 set by his sire Captain Al. His 30 individual winners that season also equaled Captain Al’s record of 30 two-year-old winners in a season.
One Stripe is from One World’s first crop and is his only Gr 1 winner to date. However, One World has had ten stakes winners already.
One Stripe’s dam Silver Stripe (Silvano) was a Listed winner over 2450m and has also produced the Gr 3 winner Vapour Trail (Erik The Red).
One Stripe’s second dam is the Gr 1 Paddock Stakes winner Badger’s Gift.
One Stripe should get plenty of attention from Breeders at stud when he starts next season.
