Paarl-based trainer Glen Kotzen booked his Gr1 Gold Medallion ticket at Hollywoodbets Scottsville for 5 June when the newly gelded Visionaire son Good Traveller made it three wins from three starts in Sunday’s R150 000 Gr3 Godolphin Barb.
A winner over the course and distance on debut on 7 February, Good Traveller provided another feature winner for the red-hot Grant Van Niekerk when he stayed on best at 5-1 to beat Irfaans Boy (25-1) by 1,80 lengths in a time of 63,63 secs.
Grant van Niekerk keeps Good Traveller at his task to win well (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
Dean Kannemeyer’s Cape Nursery winner Cosmic Highway (1-1) was outpaced early but ran a decent race to be beaten 3 lengths over a trip short of his best.
Bred by Lammerskraal from their Gr1 winning sire Visionaire (Grand Slam), the winner is out of one-time winning Western Winter mare, Skylar Lane
Visionaire was South Africa’s Leading First Season Sire of 2014-2015, and Leading Second Season Sire the following season.
Good Traveller was a R200 000 buy from the 2020 National Sale and has won all three starts for stakes of R187 500.
Visionaire, whose progeny include G1 winner Takingthepeace and fellow Fillies Guineas winner Heaps Of Fun, has a number of smart two-year-olds to his name this season. They include Norton Sound, a winner of his first two starts and runner up last time out in the Listed East Cape Nursery.
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