Tara Laing and connections are all smiles after I Like It Hot gave the yard their 500th career winner (Pauline Herman Photography).  

Eastern Cape trainer Tara Laing had the 500th win of her training career last Friday when the well bred What A Winter filly I Like It Hot won the last race over 1000m on the poly under Mathew Thackeray.

Three-year-old I Like It Hot, now a two-time winner, is a half-sister to the Equus Champion Sprinter Via Africa.

Via Africa has produced a Group 1 winner herself in Australia and the latter, In The Congo (Snitzel), is now a sire.