The Sabine Plattner Racing team started the new season in fine style at a sundrenched Hollywoodbets Durbanville on Thursday, with a terrific double, including a first SA winner for undefeated US Triple Crown winner, Justify.
Named by Tina Plattner, the 3yo Boogified stamped his authority with a decisive maiden victory over 1250m at the same track that his dam Love To Boogie won the Gr3 Diana Stakes at in 2018.
Well-supported after an eyecatching Hollywoodbets Kenilworth debut, Boogified was always in charge under Corne Orffer and ran away from his field at 8-10 to beat Snaith first-timer Magic Verse by 1,75 in a time of 75,55 secs.
Boogified cruises in on Thursday to shed his maiden (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
Bred in Australia by Sabine Plattner at Kia Oro Stud, the handsome Boogified is a handful and trainer Andre Nel was commendably frank when he pointed a finger at the Johannesburg Quarantine station and labelled it ‘horrific’.
“Every horse that goes through there lands up being a handful. It’s learnt behaviour. They are bored. It’s a fact and needs to be sorted out,” added the West Coast conditioner, who thanked the Kia Oro team and James Bester, and said that Tina Plattner would be particularly pleased with the impressive winner’s smart performance.
His Trippi dam raced under the Plattner flag and won five races from 1000m to 1600m. Love To Boogie is out of Jalberry (Jallad), a dual stakes winner of the Gr3 Pretty Polly Stakes and Listed Goldfields Sprint, who was placed in the Gr1 SA Fillies Sprint.
Love To Boogie is a half-sister to 2017 Gr2 Golden Horseshoe winner Purple Diamond (Var), amongst other winners. Her granddam Taineberry won the Oaks.
She won the Gr3 Diana Stakes and also the Listed Off To Stud Stakes. This is her first foal.
Boogified’s mom Love To Boogie (Bernard Fayd’herbe) wins the Gr3 Diana Stakes in 2018 – Corne Orffer was aboard runner-up Miss Katalin (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
Boogified’s Scat Daddy sire is Triple Crown winner Justify who spent last spring in Kentucky while the jury was out as to whether he had what it takes to be a sire success in Australia, but 12 months on he will return to Jerry’s Plains triumphant as the Champion Australian First Season Sire by earnings.
An undefeated USA Horse of the Year in 2018, Justify had six starts at three and won them all from 1400 to 2400m, proving himself the very best son of an outstanding sire in Scat Daddy.
As good a racehorse as he was, Justify is shaping as just as good a sire with eight winners in Australia from 21 starters, three of them stakes-winners Learning to Fly, Legacies and Air Assault, with progeny earnings of $1.9million.
If the Northern Hemisphere experience is anything to go by, Justify is only just warming up!
Flashback: Justify wins the Preakness
He’s had two Group I winning three year-olds in North America this year in Arabian Lion and Aspen Grove, while his second crop of two year-olds features Group winners City of Troy and Ramatuelle, seen as possibly the best juvenile colt and filly in Europe this year.
With 15 stakes-winners worldwide, Justify is running at nearly 10% SW to runner stamping himself as a serious sire and his fee this spring is A$77 000.
Enjoy the Boogified replay:
Corne Orffer rode a double for the Plattner Racing Team when their home-bred Querari filly Candy Town won the third race, also a Maiden 1250m, at her second start.
