CTS RTR graduate wins Gr1 contest in Australia
October 31, 2025 / 14 hours ago
CTS graduate Surcharge, who now races under the name Yulong Prince, won the A$1,5 million Gr1 Kennedy Cantala at Flemington on Saturday – a great achievement for an SA-bred.
Yulong Prince produced a perfectly timed run to win by a neck from a fast-finishing Cascadian.
Ridden by Damien Lane and trained by Chris Waller, the winner provided a first G1 win in Australia for Yulong’s owner Yuesheng Zhang after several seasons racing horses Down Under. Yulong Prince won the equivalent of over R10-million today, taking his career earnings to over R17,1-million.
"It's a Group 1 for Yulong and Mr Zhang and it's just fantastic to get that on the board," Wallers assistant Jo Taylor, herself a native South African, said. “Mr Zhang investing so much money in racing. He's a big supporter of ours, not just us, but racing in Australia.
She added: “Couldn’t be more proud to be South African today, especially with this hunk of a horse showing we can hold our own anywhere in the world!”
Lane commented: “His first two runs this prep were brilliant and he was really looking like he was peaking third-up to 1600 (metres) and he did today.”
Trained in South Africa by Stuart Pettigrew as Surcharge, he won the 2018 Gr1 Daily News 2000, and finished runner up in all three legs of the Gauteng Triple Crown that year.
The now 6yo entire was put through the ring and bought back for R550 000 by Dusty Trail Investments off the 2016 CTS Johannesburg Ready To Run Sale, and subsequently sold on for a short spell in Dubai before being shipped out to Australia.
Bred by Varsfontein Stud, Yulong Prince is by Gimmethegreenlight (More Than Ready) out of the UK-bred Congestion Charge (Diktat).
