Owner Willem Ackerman has not looked back in the two years since joining the Stuart Pettigrew yard and celebrated a glorious double in the R200 000 4Racing Gr3 Yellowwwood Handicap at Turffontein on Saturday when Gilded Butterfly saw her consistency rewarded with a maiden stakes victory.
Mr Ackerman is also a part-owner in the 2021 Yellowwood winner Bold Fortune, and marked a sentimental repeat victory with another year younger daughter of Flower Alley, and also trained by the Hollywoodbets-sponsored Stuart Pettigrew.
Kabelo Matsunyane has timed it perfectly as Gilded Butterfly cruises home to beat Crimson Princess (Ryan Munger) in the Yellowwood Handicap (Pic -JC Photos)
The Winning Form-sponsored Kabelo Matsunyane did the honours, producing the well-supported Gilded Butterfly (2-1) with a sustained effort to beat Crimson Princess (16-1) by 1,75 lengths in a time of 112,58 secs.
Terra Time (16-1) came out of the pack to snare third, a further half length back.
A R50 000 National Yearling Sale buy, the Maine Chance bred Gilded Butterfly is a daughter of Flower Alley (Distorted Humor ) out of the six-time winning Silvano mare, Gallica Rose.
Now a winner of 4 races with 7 places from 11 starts, she has banked R377 000 and has never been out of the money.
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