Just Reckless has a fine turn of foot and used it to maximum effect on Sunday to score by a comfortable 1,90 lengths from Rodeo Drive, whom many had regarded as the meeting banker. (Candiese Lenferna Photography)
Cape Breeders
South Africa’s reigning champion sire Gimmethegreenlight is the sire of a very classy filly in the form of the Mike Miller-trained Just Reckless.
The latter picked up her second graded stakes win when she won the G2 World Pool With Gold Circle Debutante (1200m) at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday.
Winner of the G3 Tabgold Strelitzia Stakes back in April, Just Reckless had finished fourth in the G2 Zulu Kingdom Explorer Golden Slipper prior to Sunday’s race.
The Michael Miller trained filly was given a superb ride by Tristan Godden to land the R500 000 Debutante.
Godden produced his mount with a strong late challenge, and Just Reckless swept into the lead before powering away to win by nearly two lengths.
Bred by Boland Stud, the smart filly has now won four of nine starts.
In her penultimate start in the Gr 1 Allan Robertson Championship, she had cost herself by hanging badly outward across the track, and yet finishing just 1,55 lengths back in fifth. She then followed that with a 3.05 length fourth in the Gr 2 Zulu Kingdom Explorer Golden Slipper over 1400m.
A R500 000 buy from the 2023 KZN Yearling Sale, Just Reckless is out of the Silvano mare Sommersonne and is thus bred on the same Gimmethegreenlight/Silvano cross as the likes of Bless My Stars, Cosmic Highway, Barahin and Let’s Go Now.
Her multiple champion sire had a good day at Fairview on Friday, where Gimmethegreenlight sired runners, Distinction, Gimme’s Laddie and Gimme More Time won races four, five and eight respectively.
On Sunday she had a stakes double as VJ’s Angel beat the boys to win the Gr 1 Douglas Whyte Stakes three races after Just Reckless’ win.
Some of the connections spoke about Just Reckless’s win in the Debutante: