La Moohal wins the Gr 3 TAB Sea Cottage Stakes (JC Photos)
Cape Breeders
Maine Chance Farms (Pty) Ltd’s star stallion Vercingetorix came up with his third graded stakes winner in two days when his son La Moohal won the G3 TAB Sea Cottage Stakes (1800m) at Turffontein on Sunday.
Just one day earlier, Vercingetorix sons Oriental Charm and Cousin Casey had finished 1-2 in the G1 Hollywoodbets Durban July, and another son, Cape Eagle, claimed Saturday’s G3 SplashOut 2200 on the same card.
Trained by Tyrone Zackey, three-year-old La Moohal claimed his biggest win to date when he caused a 33-1 upset in the 2024 Sea Cottage Stakes.
Under Philasande Mxoli, the Vercingetorix gelding flew up, from the back of the field, to win Sunday’s’ R250 000 feature race by a length.
Bred by Al Adiyaat, La Moohal has now won three of 11 starts and has earned more than R330 000 in prize money.
Sunday’s winner is out of the Trippi mare Hafla and is thus bred on the same cross as East Cape star Phedra.
La Moohal is the 39th stakes winner for Vercingetorix.
Vercingetorix is also the sire of the progressive Joker Man, who made it five wins in a row when victorious at Turffontein on Sunday. Trained by Johan Janse Van Vuuren, three-year-old Joker Man raced prominently throughout Sunday’s Play Soccer 6,10 and 13 Pinnacle Stakes (1600m) and dug down deep to score by a long neck.
Bred by Narrow Creek Stud, Joker Man has now won five of eight starts and he is yet to finish out of the first four.
Joker Man, who is out of the Western Winter mare Isabelle, was a R300 000 buy from the 2022 August Two Year Old Sale.
