Maine Chance Farms’ exciting young Dubawi stallion Erupt celebrated his first winner when his two-year-old son Set To Go broke his maiden at the Vaal on Tuesday afternoon.
Trained by Paul Peter, the Avontuur-bred colt had finished second on debut and made amends with a courageous win in the #ThisIsRacing Maiden Juvenile Plate (1000 metres).
Mark Khan has Set To Go in control (Pic -JC Photos)
Under Mark Khan, Set To Go fought out a thrilling finish with the well backed Emirate Gina, and stayed on to well to account for the enthusiastic filly by a neck, with Twin Strike another three-parts of a length away in third spot.
Trained by Paul Peter, Set To Go is raced by Dewalt Visagie who bought him privately off Avontuur. Mr Visagie was associated with the top-class Chesalon from the same farm.
The well named Set To Go is out of the top- performed Jet Master mare Jet Set Go, whose three wins included a score in the Gr3 Champion Juvenile Cup.
Set To Go should go a mile plus and hails from the first crop of his talented, globetrotting sire Erupt -whose five wins included triumphs in both the Gr1 Juddmonte Grand Prix de Paris (a race won previously by subsequent champion South African sire Fort Wood) and Gr1 Pattinson Canadian International, with Erupt also placed second in the 2016 Gr1 Grand Prix de Saint-Cloud.
One of 48 G1 winners sired by outstanding stallion Dubawi – also responsible for successful and promising sires Night Of Thunder, New Bay, Makfi, Time Test and Zarak – Erupt hails from a truly exceptional female line.
Erupt is out of the Gr3 Prix Vanteaux winner Mare Nostrum (herself a daughter of champion sire Caerleon), a half-sister to Gr1 Yellow Ribbon Stakes queen Aube Indienne.
This is also the family of leading sires Encosta De Lago, Flying Spur, Holy Roman Emperor and Night Shift, as well as current boom Australian galloper Home Affairs.
The well bred bay has five lots on the Cape Premier Yearling Sale, and a further 15 lots on the Cape Yearling Sale.
