Double Grand Slam is out to land a third career Gr 1 on Saturday and can give Vercingetorix another stakes winner for this season (Candiese Lenferna Photography)
One of the most surprising facts of WSB Met day is that stallion phenom Vercingetorix does not have a single runner in the opening race of the day, which is the only two-year-old black type race of the day, the Listed JC Le Roux Summer Juvenile Stakes.
On the other hand he has seven of the 24 runners in the two Gr 1 races of the day and he has 13 black type runners in all on a day that has seven black type races.
Vercingetorix is chasing his own record of 23 stakes winners in a season and is currently on eleven this season, so can reach the halfway mark ahead of schedule if he has a good day on Saturday.
Two of his runners in the Gr 1 Maine Chance Farms Majorca Stakes are Gr 1 winners already, Double Grand Slam and Mia Moo, and Double Grand Slam is chasing a third career Gr I. However, Double Grand Slam, unlike Mia Moo, is yet to win a black type race this season and she is the hot favourite here so gives the champion stallion a good chance of notching up another black type winner for the season.
His other runner in the Majorca is Minogue, who is in fact yet to earn bold black type, despite the fine season she has been having and she is in with a chance here too.
In the Gr 3 New Turf Carriers Western Cape Stayers Holding Thumbs and Magic Verse will be out to give Vercingetorix another Gr 3 exacta, having finished first and second in the Chairman’s Cup on LKP day. Magic Verse can give Vercingetorix another stakes winner.
In the Gr 3 Politician Stakes the classy Happy Verse is favourite and can give Vercingetorix another career stakes winner.
In the Listed Windhoek Olympic Duel Stakes over 1200m, Princess Of Gaul is already a Gr 2 winner for Vercingetorix this season, but both Dame Of Trix and Wild Applause can give him more career stakes winners.
