Dean Kannemeyer’s dual Grade 1 winner Green With Envy will retire to the place of his birth to take up stud duties in the new season.
Green With Envy (Craig Zackey) beats the ill-fated Flag Man to win the Gr1 Daily News 2000 (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
Bred by Khaya Stables and raised at the beautiful Varsfontein Stud, Green With Envy is by SA champion sire Gimmethegreenlight (More Than Ready) out of the Irish-bred Miss Coco, a daughter of champion Galileo, who was unbeaten in one start over 2400m.
A winner of 6 races, with two Grade 1 successes from just 10 starts for stakes nearing R3 million, Green With Envy injured a tendon sheath in his final Cape Town Met gallop.
“It would have taken six months of rest, but it was decided by Lady Laidlaw and her Racing Manager Jehan Malherbe to rather send this magnificent athlete to stud. He is a young and superb specimen, and I believe he is a very exciting prospect,” added Kannemeyer who has trained three previous Khaya Stables stallions.
Form Bloodstock’s Jehan Malherbe told the Sporting Post that Green With Envy was a champion, by a champion sire, out of a Galileo mare.
“His performance on track was top class, his pedigree speaks for itself, he is a good looker and Varsfontein is a top stud,” concluded Malherbe.
