Fourth Gr1 Winner For Mogok As Wild One Sweeps To Gold Cup Victory
| Fourth Gr1 Winner For Mogok As Wild One Sweeps To Gold Cup Victory |
Providing one of the three Gr1 victories for KZN-breds on Super Saturday at Greyville, Mogok added yet another Gr1 winner to his list after Wild One took the Gr1 eLan Gold Cup in dominating fashion over the marathon 3200m, defeating Balance Sheet, Savage Wind and Storm Warning.
Mogok Master finished fourth in the race earlier, the Gr1 Premiers Champion Stakes by three lengths off the winner, Summerhill’s Rabada. Mogok Master, out of Bennie andthe Jets by Jet Master, was sold as a weanling at the 2013 KZN Mare Sale for R55 000 from Aldora Stud.
Carrying a strong Scott Bros pedigree, being out of Sapieha mare Endangered Species, Wild One has had a perfect preparation from trainer extraordinaire Mike De Kock for owner Sean Phillips.
The gelding who turned six today ran second in this race last year to Wavin’ Flag by just half a length, and patience paid off after Wild One was put away for almost a year, making a huge comeback to finish second in June in the Gr3 Cup Trial to Puntas Arenas over 1800m, the latter finishing second in the Vodacom Durban July this year.
Less than a month later Wild One was entered into the KZN Breeders Million Mile, where he finished just a quarter length off Bezanova in second place on the turf at Greyville.
Wild One sold for just R95 000 from the 2011 Suncoast KZN Yearling Sale. His full brother Save The Rhino won over 2000m for trainer Ormond Ferraris. He has a half-sister by Miesque’s Approval named Wild Encounter coming through; she sold off the 2014 Emperors Palace National Yearling Sale for R150 000.
Wild One’s fourth dam is First Swallow, an 11-time winner in Britain and South Africa who was voted Champion Older Mare in South Africa in 1978. Her wins include the Gr1 Computaform Sprint.
This is Mogok’s fourth Gr1 winner behind Gypsy’s Warning (in SA and USA), The Apache and Orbison. The Scott Bros have five Mogok colts on offer at the upcoming National Two Year Old Sale, a sale that famously saw The Apache as one of its graduates for a mere R80 000.
Mogok, a son of Storm Cat and a half-brother to Machiavellian, stands for a fee of R20 000 this season.
