Multiple Grade 1 winner Princess Victoria will soon be retired to stud. Photo: Pretoria News
Four-time Grade 1 winner Princess Victoria is set to retire and Glen Kotzen will make the decision this morning whether she bows out in the Champagne Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday.
Kotzen, unable to give her a racecourse gallop – hence the uncertainty, said: “I will see how she is today and then decide but she has been a great filly and it would be lovely if she could go out with a win. It’s more than likely that she will then go to Silvano.”
Maine Chance Farms, which stand the new champion sire, bred the Cape Fillies Guineas, Allan Roberton, Golden Slipper and Garden Province winner, and own her in partnership with Peter de Beyer.
Kotzen has still to decide who will replace Grant van Niekerk as stable jockey but the job will be much sought after with the stable averaging over 80 winners a season.
He said: “We are in no rush to make a decision and in the meantime we are using Andrew Fortune for the heavyweights and this week we are flying down J.P. van der Merwe for Durbanville on Wednesday and Kenilworth on Saturday. So we will see how it goes.” – Pretoria News
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