Glen Kotzen’s 6yo Cat Daddy is as versatile as they come. The gelded son of Ideal World won the Algoa Cup, or ‘PE July’, in 2019 at Fairview. Then he racked up another stakes score with a gutsy victory in the Listed Darley Arabian on the Hollywoodbets Greyville polytrack at the end of last term.
On Sunday, having his first run on the East Coast in 2022, he grabbed a first stakes win on turf in KZN when he ran them ragged to win the R150 000 Listed Kings Cup.
Cat Daddy comes home smoothly under Craig Zackey (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
Given a peach of a tracking ride by Craig Zackey just off the speed set by Gentleman’s Wager, Cat Daddy (10-1) came forward powerfully at the 250m and ran on strongly to beat the consistent favourite Shampompo Shampizi (1-1) by 1,30 lengths in a time of 99,36 secs.
Native Tongue (15-2) did not get the best of starts and was not disgraced a further 1,10 lengths back in third.
Cat Daddy is raced by The Great 8 Stables and LLC Syndicate (Nom :Mr D H Barton) and was bred by the Gary Player Stud.
A winner 7 races with 14 places from 35 starts, he took his earnings to R817 325.
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A son of the dual stakes winning Kingmambo stallion Ideal World, Cat Daddy is out of the Black Minnaloushe mare Eyona, a winning half-sister to the stakes placed Elusive Model and to the dam of Castle Tankard hero Peggson.
This is the famous ‘E’ family, responsible for South African champions Empress Club, Ecurie, Escoleta Fitz, Eventuail, and successful sire Elusive Fort. Former Equus Champion Stayer Hermoso Mundo, also sired by Ideal World, is another notable member of this family.
The Kings Cup was originally carded on the Hollywoodbets Greyville turf on Sunday 27 March, but the meeting was abandoned. Then it was rostered for Hollywoodbets Scottsville a week later – and after Mother Nature intervened it was eventually run back on the turf at the Durban city track on Sunday.
There are six Ideal World yearlings on the BSA National Yearling Sale later this month. Big Sky Ranch’s lot 365 is from the same ‘E’ family.
