Drakenstein Stud’s four time G1 winning sire What A Winter looks to have a potentially top-class filly to his name in the form of One Fine Winter.
The latter became What A Winter’s 28th stakes winner when she ran out an impressive winner of the G3 TAB Pretty Polly Stakes at Turffontein on Saturday.
Trained by Sean Tarry One Fine Winter turned Saturday’s 1100m contest into a one-horse race.
Under Richard Fourie, the classy two-year-old took control a long way out, and from there One Fine Winter drew off to win by an impressive four and a half lengths.
Bred and owned by Drakenstein Stud, the blue blooded One Fine Winter has won two of four starts, with the filly having finished second in the G2 Wilgerbosdrift SA Fillies Nursery earlier in the season.
One Fine Winter, who is out of the Trippi mare One Fine Day, is bred on the same What A Winter/Trippi cross as 2023 G3 Winter Nursery winner Distant Winter.
A tilt at the G1 Allan Robertson Championship is on the cards for One Fine Winter.
Her inform sire What A Winter, whose daughters Asiye Phambili and Symphony In White ran 2-3 in Sunday’s G3 Dennis Drier Poinsettia Stakes, struck again on Saturday when his progressive son Kamensky won the eighth race at Turffontein.
What A Winter has enjoyed another good season in 2024-2025, with the Drakenstein Stud resident’s flagbearers this season including G2 Cartier Sceptre Stakes/G3 World Sports Betting Southern Cross Stakes winner Asiye Phambili and Listed Kings Cup winner Winter Games.
Original article written by Cape Breeders Club