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  • Inglis Easter Graduate Outfoxes Gr1 Rivals

    Monday, 1st February 2021

    Easter star Run Fox Run (Foxwedge) defeated what has been described as one of the strongest South African sprint fields of the past century with victory in the Gr1 Kenilworth Flying Championship overnight. The sprinting star was always destined for Group 1 success, winning her first five starts – two at Stakes level – and took a seven-wins-from-10-starts record into Saturday’s feature. The Brett Crawford-trained 5YO mare sat on the speed before careering away over the final 200m to secure a valuable Group 1 triumph. She now sits in the upper echelon of South African sprinters of the past 20 years and being lightly raced, appears to have many more wins in her. Run Fox Run becomes the fifty-fifth Gr1-winning Inglis graduate since 2018 and continues a stunning recent run of international success which also includes Stakes wins in Hong Kong, New Zealand and Singapore. Crawford teamed up with Craig Roscoe at the 2017 Easter Yearling Sale to purchase Run Fox Run for $420,000 from Mill Park, who also bred the mare. “She was a queen at Easter and one we just had to take back to South Africa… She is just a superstar and the fastest horse in South Africa.’’ Owners, the Kieswetters of Ridgemont Stud, have had unbelievable success out of the Inglis sales. On top of Run Fox Run, they purchased Whisky Baron for $50,000 from Easter who won South Africa's biggest race the Group 1 Sun Met, Chevauchee a multiple Stakes winner and have a very promising filly called Mushi Sterek, she is only lightly raced but already Stakes placed and looks as though she can also get to the top level.

    Run Fox Run

    Run Fox Run (pic: inglis.com.au)