MORE MID-WEEK SUCCESS FOR CRS!

Cape Racing Sales graduates have enjoyed a great run of success of late, and two more CRS purchases saluted when Take It As Red and Vapour Trail won at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Wednesday.

Take It As Red became the second winner for champion Hawwaam when she won Wednesday’s Klawervlei Stud Maiden Juvenile Plate (Fillies) (1400m). Under a good ride from Chad Little, the Piet Steyn trained two-year-old overcame greenness in running when she posted a near half length win on Wednesday.

Owned by the Turf Talk Syndicate, Take It As Red was a R150 000 buy from the 2024 Cape Racing Winter Yearling Sale.

Take It As Red

The filly, who had finished fourth in each of her four previous starts, sports a classic pedigree.
Not only is she a daughter of a five-time Gr 1 winning champion in the form of Hawwaam, but Take It As Red is out of the High Chaparral mare Santiburi, a relative of such notable Gr 1 winners as Glamour Puss, Vision And Power and Savvy Coup.

(Take It As Red’s broodmare sire High Chaparral also ranks as the damsire of 2025 Gr 1 Betfred 2000 Guineas winner Ruling Court).

Cape Racing Sales graduate Vapour Trail, a half-brother to CRS graduate and dual Gr 1 winning star One Stripe, impressed when he romped home to break his maiden in style on Wednesday.
The tenth winner for leading first season sire Erik The Red, two-year-old Vapour Trail stormed home to win the Hopes And Dreams Stud Maiden Plate (1400m) for Vaughan Marshall and Gavin Lerena.

The Drakenstein Stud bred colt is owned by Rikesh Seewgoolam.

Vapour Trail

Vapour Trail, a R250 000 buy from the 2024 Cape Premier Yearling Sale, is out of the Silvano mare Silver Stripe, whose three wins included a triumph in the Listed Spook Express Handicap.

By Sarah Whitelaw