What a weekend! Trippi’s 3yo daughter R Heat Lightning wins a G2 by seven lengths at Gulfstream Park, the same track where 3yo colts Travelin Man and Gourmet Dinner have seconds in two other G2 races.
Trippi stands at Drakenstein Stud in the Cape now, his first local crop are yearlings.
Trippy filly Trip for A.J. avenged a heart-breaking setback at the hands of Horse Chestnut mare Askbut I Won’ttell last time out when she scored a half-length upset over her nemesis in Saturday’s $300,000 Sunshine Millions Filly and Mare Turf at Gulfstream Park.
Two-year-old Gourmet Dinner scored a visually impressive 2-length win in the rich $1-million Jackpot Stakes over 1700m. Here’s the race report and some pedigree background on Trippi, by Andrew Caulfield (from TDN), Rommy Faversham (from Thoroughbred Times), and Pedigree Consultants.
Someone had a lot of fun putting together the pedigree of Trippi’s first G1 winner, R Heat Lightning. The filly is the second foal of her 3-time winning dam Yellow Heat, and she is full sister to stakes placed colt Hot Trip. Yellow Heat is a daughter of stallion Gold Fever, who is a son of Forty Niner. The latter is also the grandsire of Trippi, which makes R Heat Lightning inbred 3×3 to Forty Niner.
The tongue-twistingly named sprinter was bred and is owned in South Africa, trained by a US-based Brit and will be ridden by a French-based Belgian
