The Ridgemont homebred colt Esteemed, whom Ridgemont own in partnership with Devin Heffer, made a huge impression on debut and the good looking son of Rafeef is the favourite for Saturday’s Gr 2 TAB SA Nursery.

Ridgemont have been virtually unbeatable with their two-year-old runners this season and their winning streak could continue on Saturday with the Mike and Matthew de Kock-trained Rafeef colt Esteemed in the Gr 2 TAB SA Nursery.

Eight Ridgemont-bred two-year-olds have run this season to date and seven of them have won, six of them have won on debut and two of them are unbeaten after two runs. The seven winners have won nine races between them.

Canford Cliffs is sire of four of the winners including the unbeaten in two starts filly Direct Hit, who is trained by Alan Greeff. She travelled to Cape Town for her second start and won the Gr 3 Splashout Cape Of Good Hope Nursery over 1200m by an easy 2,75. Only two horses from that race have appeared again and both of them won.

The Greef-trained Canford Cliffs filly Hot Sauce also looks most promising as she beat a Cape Town raider, who had decent form, by 2,75 lengths on debut and the third-placed horse was beaten eight lengths.

Rafeef is sire of two of the Ridgemont/Devin Heffer-owned two-year-old winners, including the Mike and Matthew de Kock-trained Easy Tiger, who has won both starts, and the De Kock-trained Esteemed, who won by 4,50 lengths on debut.

On Saturday Esteemed runs in the Gr 2 TAB SA Nursery under Ridgemont’s retained jockey Richard Fourie (he is drawn two out of just six runners). The tall, good looking Rafeef colt displayed a huge action, but is still immature as he has to grow into his big frame, so could be anything.

He was stretching away effortlessly under Ryan Munger at the business end and Munger said afterwards, “This fella has all the attributes to be a top horse.”