ARO - FIRST WINNER FOR PINATUBO

Recent Meetings

TURFFONTEIN - INSIDE - 17 Jul 2025
Races at TURFFONTEIN - INSIDE - 17 Jul 2025
- MR 72 HANDICAP over 1450m, RAN 50,469 PHIL THE FLUTER (SAF) 2021, wins by 0.2 length(s) in 88.45 secs...
- FM 80 HANDICAP (F & M) over 1600m, RAN 59,375 STREISAND (SAF) 2021, wins by 1.3 length(s) in 98.66 secs...
- FM 100 HANDICAP (F & M) over 1600m, RAN 65,312 IT'S HER WAY (SAF) 2021, wins by 1.8 length(s) in 97.45 secs...
- MR 66 HANDICAP over 1000m, RAN 47,500 LONELY AS A CLOUD (SAF) 2021, wins by 0.6 length(s) in 58.32 secs...
- MAIDEN PLATE over 1800m, RAN 62,344 MIZZEN SWORD (SAF) 2021, wins by 2.25 length(s) in 114.58 secs...
- MAIDEN PLATE (F & M) over 1800m, RAN 56,406 HOPSCOTCH (SAF) 2022, wins by 0.5 length(s) in 112.16 secs...
- MAIDEN PLATE (F & M) over 1450m, RAN 56,406 WISE COUNSEL (SAF) 2022, wins by 2.6 length(s) in 88.89 secs...
- MAIDEN PLATE over 1450m, RAN 62,344 SAFE TRAVEL (SAF) 2022, wins by 3.4 length(s) in 89.25 secs...

FIRST WINNER FOR PINATUBO

17 May 2024 09:26

Darley’s champion juvenile and promising first-season sire Pinatubo looks to have a smart prospect in the shape of his first winner, Andesite.

The colt, who took the six-furlong novice contest at York on Thursday, is bred to be decent and precocious.

Pinatubo, a son of Shamardal and the Listed-winning Dalakhani mare Lava Flow, was a brilliant and unbeaten juvenile, with a nine-length win in the Curragh’s National Stakes supplemented by victories in the Dewhurst, Vintage Stakes and Chesham Stakes.

In being allotted an official rating of 128 for his exploits in that 2019 campaign, he was rated the best European juvenile since Celtic Swing in 1994, and higher than Frankel

The Godolphin homebred went on to win a third Group 1, the Prix Jean Prat, as a three-year-old and also placed in the 2,000 Guineas, St James’s Palace Stakes and Prix du Moulin.

Gimme A Nother runs Sunday

South African champion Gimme A Nother is one of six fillies and mares entered to run in the G2 Canadian Stakes Presented By The Japan Racing Association at Woodbine this Sunday. Trained by Graham Motion, the …

CHAMPIONS CUP ENTRIES

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Distant Winter scores in USA

The Drakenstein Stud bred and owned Distant Winter recently made a winning debut in North America. Now in the care of Graham Motion, the What A Winter daughter powered home, under Jorge Ruiz to claim an …

Langerman glory for Danon Platina

Mauritzfontein’s inform stallion Danon Platina had a day to remember at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday. The Japanese champion was responsible for a pair of eye catching two-year-old winners on Saturday with his son Absolutely Yes landing …

Champion Isivunguvungu worked three furlongs in 38.8 seconds at Fair Hill on Friday.

The gelding breezed over the turf surface on June 13th. Equus Champion Sprinter of 2022-2023, Isivunguvungu has not raced since finishing tenth in the G1 Al Quoz Sprint back on April 5th. Trained by Graham Motion, …

ST MARK’S BASILICA OFF THE MARK

Champion St Mark’s Basilica was supplied with his first winner on Monday when Rogue Supremacy impressed on debut at Wetherby. The David O’Meara-trained colt was sent off a warm favourite and duly obliged by two and …