The latest log for the R7,5 million WSB Gold Rush Stakes to be run over 1600m on Cape Met day, 28 January 2023, has been published.
Alyson Wright will train the former Tarry filly (Pic – hamishNIVENPhotography)
The race is based on the same principle as The Everest in Australia.
The Gold Rush offers 16 ticketholders (prospectors) the opportunity to race for the massive stake and is open to graduates of the 2021 Cape Premier Yearling Sale.
In an interesting aside, the Gold Rush race log-topper Time Fo Orchids (Time Thief) was the main attraction at the BSA Sean Tarry Fast Track Sale on Friday at Randjesfontein when purchased by Alyson Wright’s Gee Racing for R850,000.
She was bought on behalf of Rikesh Sewgoolam, who is one of the 16 Gold Rush ‘prospectors’, who hold a ticket for the big race.
Alyson Wright said the filly would be sent by Sewgoolam to Vaughan Marshall to be prepared at Milnerton for the Gold Rush race.
Turf Talk reported that five lots in total went for over R500 000.
Lot 37, Kambulu, a Querari colt out of an own sister to Little Miss Magic, fetched R700,000 bought by Form Bloodstock.
Lot 7, Ecstatic Green, is a good broodmare prospect being by Champion sire Gimmethegreenlight and having won the Grade 2 Debutante and finishing second in both the Grade 1 Allan Robertson and Grade 2 Tibouchina. Gelykfontein Stud bought her for R675,000.
Lot 30, a Vercingetorix half-sister to stakes-winner Sarah, went for R525,000 bought by George O’Brien.
Captain Al mare Victoria Paige, who is multiple times Graded placed, fetched R520,000, bought by Triple 8 Clothing.
The aggregate for the sale was R7,184, 000.
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