Exciting two-year-old Ambiorix, a R250 000 purchase from last year’s Cape Premier Yearling Sale, made an impressive debut at Kenilworth on Saturday, when he downed some highly rated two-year-olds to win the Listed Summer Juvenile Stakes over 1000m on Cape Town Met day.
Ambiorix winning the Listed Summer Juvenile Stakes. (Pic- Chase Liebenberg)
Under Luke Ferraris, the Vaughan Marshall trained colt made his way down towards the inside running rail, and kept going strongly to record a facile two and a half length win at the first time of asking.
Well supported before the race, Ambiorix won most impressively, and he looks a very exciting prospect for the future.
Bred by the Oldlands Stud, Ambiorix, who races for Burns Racing, is a colt by Vercingetorix out of Lady’s Slipper Stakes winner Darling Moon, with the latter a half-sister to G3 Graham Beck Stakes/G3 Cup Trial winner Astro News.
Ambiorix’s sire Vercingetorix, who has made an explosive start to his stud career, has a top-class draft of yearlings on offer at this year’s Cape Premier Yearling Sale, with Vercingetorix’s eight lots on offer including a filly (Lot 135) out of a half-sister to July runner up Punta Arenas, a colt (Lot 162) from the same female line as champions Ajdal, Arazi and Noverre, and a half-sister to Swallow Stakes winner Sarah.
