Wilgerbosdrift’s resident G1 Travers Stakes winner Flower Alley is having another fine season and his star daughter Princess Calla struck yet again when she ran out a brilliant winner of the G2 Senor Santa Stakes (1160m) at Turffontein on Saturday.
In the process, the Sean Tarry trained five-year-old claimed the eighth win, and seventh graded victory, of her superb career.
Under Richard Fourie, Princess Calla tracked the front running Rollwiththepunches before exploding past him close home. From there, the race turned into a procession, with Princess Calla spreadeagling her rivals to win imperiously by five and a quarter lengths.
Bred by Maine Chance Farms, Princess Calla was claiming her third graded win this season, with the Flower Alley mare having also captured this season’s G2 wsb.co.za Southern Cross Stakes and G2 Cartier Sceptre Stakes.
Out of the Captain Al mare Princess Royal, Princess Calla is being aimed at the G1 HSH Princess Charlene Empress Club Stakes, a race she won last year.
Her sire Flower Alley went close to enjoying a feature race double at Turffontein on Saturday with another daughter Raratonga Rose dead-heating for third in Saturday’s Listed Ormond Ferraris Oaks Trial.
Flower Alley also went close to having big-race success last Saturday when his classy three-year-old daughter Feather Boa finished a short-head second in the G1 Wilgerbosdrift SA Fillies Classic.
Winner of the 2022 Bloodstock SA Sales Cup (Fillies), Feather Boa has now earned more than R900 000 in prize money.
Her inform sire Flower Alley has five lots on offer at this year’s National Yearling Sale.
Seventh graded win for Flower Alley daughter
Wilgerbosdrift’s resident G1 Travers Stakes winner Flower Alley is having another fine season and his star daughter Princess Calla struck yet again when she ran out a brilliant winner of the G2 Senor Santa Stakes (1160m) at Turffontein on Saturday.
In the process, the Sean Tarry trained five-year-old claimed the eighth win, and seventh graded victory, of her superb career.
Under Richard Fourie, Princess Calla tracked the front running Rollwiththepunches before exploding past him close home. From there, the race turned into a procession, with Princess Calla spreadeagling her rivals to win imperiously by five and a quarter lengths.
Bred by Maine Chance Farms, Princess Calla was claiming her third graded win this season, with the Flower Alley mare having also captured this season’s G2 wsb.co.za Southern Cross Stakes and G2 Cartier Sceptre Stakes.
Out of the Captain Al mare Princess Royal, Princess Calla is being aimed at the G1 HSH Princess Charlene Empress Club Stakes, a race she won last year.
Her sire Flower Alley went close to enjoying a feature race double at Turffontein on Saturday with another daughter Raratonga Rose dead-heating for third in Saturday’s Listed Ormond Ferraris Oaks Trial.
Flower Alley also went close to having big-race success last Saturday when his classy three-year-old daughter Feather Boa finished a short-head second in the G1 Wilgerbosdrift SA Fillies Classic.
Winner of the 2022 Bloodstock SA Sales Cup (Fillies), Feather Boa has now earned more than R900 000 in prize money.
Her inform sire Flower Alley has five lots on offer at this year’s National Yearling Sale.