AFRIKABURN makes another winning debut

The magnificently beautiful Group 1 winning son of Trippi, AFRIKABURN, has made an impressive winning debut in the show ring. The now nine year old gelding was very well received by the judges at the recent 2020 KwaZulu Natal Showing Championships, winning numerous classes including the Newcomers Showing Championship. He is now owned in his second career by national yearling inspector Jane Thomas, in partnership with Cathy Martin of Hadlow Stud and ridden by Darryn McIntosh. Jane Thomas picks up the story; “I selected AFRIKABURN at the CTS select sale for stalwart owner Fred Crabbia.

He was pre-trained by me at Far End Farm until he went into full training with Dean Kannemeyer. He was unbeaten going into the 2014 July day Group 1 Golden Horseshoe, which he duly won. He also ran in the Group 1 Premiers Champion Stakes on the 2014 Gold Cup day, where he finished 8th (beaten by 5 lengths), so Dean sent him back to the farm to mature.

He then went into training in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Port Elizabeth. He ran 2nd in the 2014 Group 3 Matchem Stakes and won another 4 races thereafter.

He ended his career with Tara Laing in Port Elizabeth at the end of last year. Cathy Martin and I, over a couple of gin & tonics, decided to offer AFRIKABURN a home as a show horse and, orchestrated by Emma Rorke, Fred Crabbia kindly gave him to us. Then before we could really get going with him the long Covid-19 lockdown time hit us and both Cathy and I worried about our perhaps frivolous decision to take him, but as Dean Kannemeyer said to me “bad horses don’t win Group Ones”. AFRIKABURN & Darryn McIntosh (photos on the left by Equerry and Pauline Herman’s gorgeous head shot is on the right) have now shown us that to be very true at the recent show!!” AFRIKABURN (SAF) 2011 a bay gelding by TRIPPI (USA) out of AQUATINT (AUS) by PEINTRE CELEBRE (USA).