Drakenstein Stud’s four time G1 winning stallion What A Winter enjoyed big race success at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday.
His five-year-old daughter Asiye Phambili, winner of the 2024 G3 Dennis Drier Poinsettia Stakes, picked up her second graded race win when she won the G3 World Sports Betting Southern Cross Stakes over 1000 metres.
Trained by Gareth Van Zyl, Asiye Phambili came into Saturday’s R250 000 contest off a runner up effort in the Listed Laisserfaire Stakes and was sent off a well backed favourite for the World Sports Betting Southern Cross Stakes.
Under champion jockey Richard Fourie, the What A Winter daughter unleashed a fine turn of foot to reel in the front running Candy Town and win convincingly by a length and a quarter.
Bred by Hemel ‘N Aarde, the progressive Asiye Phambili has won seven of 20 starts and has earned more than R775 000 in stakes.
A full-sister to G2 Western Cape Fillies Championship runner up Trickster, Asiye Phambili is out of the Rambo Dancer mare Cast A Spell.
Her inform sire What A Winter had gone close to enjoying graded success a week earlier, with What A Winter filly Elegant Ice finishing a close second in the G3 Betway Carry On Alice Stakes.
Asiye Phambili and Elegant Ice are a growing number of high-class What A Winter daughters, with this list including G1 winners Clouds Unfold and Humdinger, as well as graded stakes winners Celestial Love, Cold Fact, Distant Winter, Miss Cool, Magical Wonderland, Winter Cloud, and Winter Smoke.
Original article written by Cape Breeders Club.