THE UNITED STATES DOUBLES UP

Moutonshoek’s resident Galileo horse The United States has been enjoying a purple patch of late with his runners winning good races all over South Africa.

The flashy chestnut was at it again on Saturday, when The United States supplied a pair of winners on WSB Cape Town Met day.

His three-year-old son Nevada King showed his class when storming home from near the back of the field to win the fifth race run at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Met day. Dropped out back by jockey Richard Fourie, the Justin Snaith trained gelding came with a late rattle to get up and win nearly half a length.

Bred by Moutonshoek, Nevada King looks to be a potential candidate for the G1 Cape Derby at the end of February.

The gelding has proved ultra consistent, having yet to finish out of the money in ten career starts.

The United States, currently above the likes of Master Of My Fate,Trippi, Dynasty and Vercingetorix on this season’s Leading Sires of 3YOS log, has a very exciting crop of threeyear-olds representing him this season.

Among his notable sophomores in 2022-2023 are recent Gr3 Sea Cottage Stakes winner Billy Bowlegs, brilliant Listed Racehorse Owners Association Stakes hero Khaya’s Hope, Gr3 TAB4Racing Victory Moon Stakes runner up East Coast, and the exciting Without Question.

The latter stamped himself a likely Derby contender when finishing a close up second in the recent

Gr3 Politician Stakes.

By the same sire as outstanding stallions Frankel (Champion Sire in France in 2022), New Approach and Teofilo, The United States hails from the immediate family of hugely influential champion sire Last Tycoon.

The latter sired a pair of top-class sire sons in Marju and O’Reilly and also ranks as broodmare sire of multiple champion sire King Kamehameha among others.

The United States, a fullbrother to dual Guineas winner Hermosa and dual Gr1 winner Hydrangea, is bred on the same Galileo/Pivotal cross as fellow Gr1 winners Rhododendron (dam of G1 winner Auguste Rodin), Love and Magical.