While South Africa’s reigning Broodmare Of The Year Halfway To Heaven made headlines at Hollywoodbets Greyville with her sons Golden Ducat and Rainbow Bridge running 1-2 in Saturday’s Gr1 WSB Champions Cup, she was not the only South African star matriarch to make her presence felt on the day.
The late Soho Secret (Regent Street) more than made her mark on the 2020 Gold Cup day, with her descendants shining in a number of graded features on Saturday.
Her great grandson Master Of My Fate (Jet Master) was responsible for no fewer than four of the 14 runners in Saturday’s Gr1 Premiers Champion Stakes, including Gr1 Golden Horse Medallion winner, and favourite, Tempting Fate.
However, the race was won by his daughter Sentbydestiny, who became her sire’s second Gr1 winner in the process.
Master Of My Fate, who has sired at least one graded stakes winner in each of his first three crops to race, is out of Soho Secret’s champion granddaughter Promisefrommyheart (Elliodor) -who ranks as either the dam of or granddam of six stakes winners.
Promisefrommyheart’s Gr1 Majorca Stakes winning half-sister Covenant (Western Winter) is another who has made her mark at stud.
Progressive Erik The Red – exciting prospect (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
The four time graded stakes winner’s son Erik The Red (Captain Al) picked up his fifth win, from eight starts, when running out a stirring winner of Saturday’s Gr2 Epol Umkhomazi Stakes.
Now a four time stakes winner, Erik The Red is bred on similar lines to the Captain Al sired Gr3 Lonsdale Stirrup Cup winner Captain Splendid (who is out of Promisefrommheart’s stakes winning daughter Justthewayyoare).
South Africa’s Broodmare Of The Year in 1995, Soho Secret also ranks as the fourth dam of Saturday’s Gr2 Prosport International Debutante Stakes winner Ecstatic Green (Gimmethegreenlight). The latter is bred on very similar lines to the Gimmethegreenlight sired stakes winners Favorita and Hack Green, both of whom are descended in female line from Soho Secret.
Ecstatic Green’s third dam is Soho Secret’s winning Peacetime daughter So Happy, who also ranks as the dam of Gr2 Derby winner, and Gr1 Vodacom Durban July runner up, Superwood (Fort Wood).
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