Varsfontein Stud rounded off a successful 2025 SA Champions Day at Turffontein on Saturday with their third winner when the Master Of My Fate filly My Soul Mate relished a step up to the 2850m of the R300 000 4Racing Listed Caradoc Gold Cup.
My Soul Mate (Ryan Munger on outside) holds off Rachel Venniker on Explosive Bond in an all-girls finish (Pic – JC Photos)
A multiple Gr2 placer up to Saturday, the 4yo My Soul Mate (11-2) registered what was an overdue maiden stakes success when unleashed late with a sustained finish by Ryan Munger to make it an all fairer sex exacta, beating Explosive Bond (33-1) by 0,20 lengths in a time of 192,42 secs for the 2850m.
Sean Tarry’s trojan stayer Nebraas (16-1) showed a flicker of his illustrious past form to run third a further 4,50 lengths back.
Twenty Drachma’s (16-1) rounded off the quartet, with the favourite Marauding Horde (9-4) in fifth.
The winner was saddled by Hollywoodbets-sponsored Candice Dawson, of CK Racing.
This was Ryan Munger’s final ride before he returns to Canada after a golden stint in South Africa.
Bred and raced by Varsfontein Stud, the daughter of Master Of My Fate (Jet Master) out of the proven stayer producing twice-winning Captain Al mare, Secret Obsession.
Now a winner of 3 races with 2 places from 20 starts and stakes of R804 063, My Soul Mate looks to have opened up new possibilities in our admittedly limited staying category.
Varsfontein earlier bred the undefeated Golden Palm, also a daughter of Master Of My Fate, who won the Wilgerbosdrift Gr2 SA Fillies Nursery, as well as Pressonregardless (Lancaster Bomber), who won the fifth, an MR 82 Handicap.
