Narina Trogon will be out to land his first stakes success this season in Saturday’s Gr 3 WSB 1900 and that will help his breeders Drakenstein Stud inch closer to their own SA record of stakes winners in a season. (Candiese Lenferna Photography).
Sail The Seas became the 17th stakes winner Drakenstein Stud have bred this season and this puts them just five short of breaking their own South African record for stakes winners in a season.
Drakenstein are out to break this particular record for the fourth time in successive seasons.
They had 18 stakes winners of 25 races in the 2021/2022 season, 20 stakes winners of 35 races in the 2022/2023 season and 21 stakes winners of 31 races last season.
Their Twice Over stalwart See It Again is yet to win a stakes race this season, while their One World Big Cap winner All Out For Six has not won a stakes race either, so they come to mind as candidates to add to the statistics.
Futura homebred gelding Future Swing will be out to retain his title in the Gr 3 WSB 1900 on Saturday at Greyville, while Silvano gelding Narina Trogon will be another Drakenstein-bred in that race who will be out to land his first stakes race of the season.
Others who could still bring stakes success this season are the like of the homebred Trippi filly Little Suzie, Trippi filly Clair De Lune, homebred Lancaster Bomber gelding Air Raid, homebred Lancaster Bomber filly Beware The Bomb, homebred Gimmethegreenlight filly Gimmethatpearl, homebred Gold Standard mare Gold Poker Game, Vercingetorix gelding Magic Verse, the improving Lancaster Bomber gelding Yamadori, Vercingetorix debut winner Happy Verse, Gimmethegreenlight colt Malmesbury Missile, Gimmethegreenlight filly Wild Wild Green, One World gelding Don’t Cry For Me, Lancaster Bomber gelding Chestnut Bomber, Futura homebred stayer Battleground, Gold Standard gelding Golden Peace and many others.
It is tough to win a stakes race and placement will be key for most of the above mentioned.
However, among all of them there could well be five who will win a stakes race in the close to three months of the season still remaining.
