PREMIUM! Groom Patrick Mange with Summer Pudding on 25 November 2020, at Turffontein Racecourse in Johannesburg. Picture: Michel Bega
The race card for this weekendâs Queenâs Plate Festival at Kenilworth is littered with the progeny of five-time champion stallion Silvano â not least among them Summer Pudding, South African racingâs newest star, in the Grade 1 Cartier Paddock Stakes. The story of Silvano â recently retired after a magnificent career at stud, which followed a singular campaign on the racecourses of the world â is fairly well known. Silvano won and was placed at the top level in six different countries. From the breeding shed at Maine Chance Farms in South Africa, he has delivered a stream of champions,.