All hail The Real Prince

South Africa’s greatest wfa event after Saturday’s victory and not many would disagree with him, especially considering it now carries a “win and you're in” condition for the Gr 1 Breeders’ Cup Mile.

- DAVID THISELTON

‘Nracing there is the saying, “It takes just one horse” and the one horse in the ownership career of owner/ breeder Lady Christine Laidlaw is the current Equus Champion Broodmare mare Real Princess, who on Saturday became the mother of two multiple Gr 1 winners when the Dean Kannemeyer-

trained Gimmethegreenlight gelding, The Real Prince won the country’s most prestigious weight for age mile, the L’Ormarins King’s Plate.

It was a fourth L’Ormarins King’s Plate/Queen’s Plate win for the Kannemeyer yard and his last two have been for Lady Laidlaw’s Khaya Stables, although unlike her 2014 winner Capetown Noir this one was homebred.

The Real Prince will now attempt to become the eighth horse in history to have won both the Hollywoodbets Durban July and Cape Town’s traditional biggest race, the Gr 1 wfa WSB Met over 2000m, although Kannemeyer called the King’s Plate

Kannemeyer said in the build up to the King’s Plate that The Real Prince had come on from his run in the Green Point and had come on further with an 800m sharpening gallop at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on the Tuesday, twelve days ahead of the race.