Henk Leyenaar and family lead in Jan Van Goyen. Leyenaar named the horse after the street of his birth in Heemstede in Holland (Picture: Wayne Marks)
Bloodstock South Africa celebrated another big win on Saturday when BSA graduate, and Equus Champion, Jan Van Goyen ran out a brilliant winner of the G1 Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth.
Last season’s Equus Champion 2YO Colt turned Saturday’s 1600m classic into a one-horse race. Under Callan Murray, the Mike and Mathew De Kock trained Jan Van Goyen unleashed a fine turn of foot which saw the colt storm home to claim the second G1 win of his career by two and three quarter lengths. In the process, Jan Van Goyen took his tally of wins to four, from just six starts, and his earnings to R2 403 888. Raised at Boland Stud, Jan Van Goyen, a R600 000 buy from the 2024 KZN Yearling Sale, was bred by Mr and Mrs Trotter, Rob Alexander and Bruce Campbell. A son of Varsfontein Stud’s increasingly successful homebred stallion Master Of My Fate, Saturday’s winner races for Henk Leyenaar, Daniella Erasmus and Louisa Huntingford. Jan Van Goyen, whose Guineas success confirmed his status as one of South Africa’s most exciting gallopers, is out of the twice winning Oratorio mare Daydream Believer. The colt was one of three BSA sold thoroughbreds to win feature races at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday.
BSA purchase Sukhumvit made a big impression when she won Saturday’s G3 1Voucher Victress Stakes, with fellow BSA buy Outlaw King winning the G2 SplashOut Cape Merchants for a second year running.
Trained by Alec Laird, five-year-old Sukhumvit claimed the biggest win of her career when storming home, under Philasande Mxoli, to win the Victress Stakes as she liked by three and a quarter lengths. The Normandy Stud bred mare, who races for Nick Jonsson, was a R500 000 purchase from the 2022 National Yearling Sale. A full-sister to G1 ARF Commemorative Cape Derby runner up Sachdev, Sukhumvit has won or been placed in ten of 12 starts with the daughter of Silvano having earned R393 594.
Classy sprinter Outlaw King, a R300 000 purchase from 2022 National Sale, made it back to back wins in the G2 Cape Merchants when he won Saturday’s contest in scintillating fashion. Under Craig Zackey, the Dean Kannemeyer trained gelding stormed home to claim the SplashOut sponsored feature by a neck. Bred by Sandown Stud, and owned by the D K Racing Syndicate, Outlaw King has now won six of 18 starts for earnings of R1 481 532. A son of Ridgemont’s prominent stallion Rafeef, Outlaw King is out of the four time winning Greys Inn mare Way Of Escape.
