Foxwedge flying the flag with top-level strike at Kenilworth

Foxwedge is now the sire of four individual Group winners, all of whose victories have been achieved in different countries, after Run Fox Run joined the list in the Cape Flying Championship at Kenilworth on Saturday.

A Group 1-winning sprinter in Australia, the Fastnet Rock stallion spent the middle of last decade at Whitsbury Manor Stud in Hampshire before returning home, and has been based at Woodside Park Stud in Victoria.

His best performers to date have been Foxplay, who took the Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes in Australia, New Zealand's Railway Stakes winner Volpe Veloce and Urban Fox, who took the Pretty Polly Stakes in Ireland.

The last-named is of particular significance as she was bought in training by the Kieswetter family for their Irish breeding operation, Barnane Stud.

The Kieswetters, the international cricketer Craig, brother Ross and father Wayne, are influential breeders in South Africa and the family bought the Mill Park Stud-bred Run Fox Run for A$420,000 at the 2017 Inglis Australian Easter yearling.

Trained by Brett Crawford, she has racked up an impressive sequence, including the Grade 2 Southern Cross Stakes at the same track and a narrow Grade 1 defeat to outstanding South African mare Celtic Sea in the South African Fillies Sprint.

The half-sister to several winners, including recent Hong Kong scorer Winning For All, never gave her rivals a look-in as she dictated with a formidable show of speed under Anton Marcus. Her old foe Celtic Sea was a solid third.

"Grade 1s at Kenilworth are so difficult to win," Wayne Kieswetter told Tellytrack. "Anton rode a super race, got in the perfect position and we were just the lucky ones."

His son Ross added: "It’s the South Australian breeding awards [coming up], I know she was nominated, what a pleasure to be involved in a filly like this."

The feature race of the day, the Cape Town Met, saw South Africa's most acclaimed broodmare Halfway To Heaven extend her incredible record.

She had already produced three Grade 1 winners from as many foalsand the Eric Sands-trained Rainbow Bridge burst down the stands' rail to repeat his 2019 victory.

Golden Ducat, who deprived his half-brother by a whisker in the Champions Cup at Greyville in June, was sixth. Another sibling, Hawwaam, is set to join William Haggas from Mike de Kock this year, while his stablemate and sister In Limbo kept up the winning tradition in a maiden a fortnight ago.

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