Mount Pleasant is the first stakes winner for Golden Slipper Stakes winner Vancouver after winning the Gr2 SA Nursery (1200m) at Turffontein.
The Mike de Kock-trained two-year-old finished best of all to defeat stablemate and also Australian-bred Najem Suhail (Starspangledbanner) by one length with Nourbese (Futura) a further 3-1/4 lengths away third.
Bred by Makybe Racing and Breeding, Mount Pleasant sold for A$90,000 at the Inglis Premier Sale and is inbred 3×3 to Danehill.
His dam Life In A Metro (Fastnet Rock) is a three-quarter sister to Gr1 AJC Oaks winner Absolutely (Redoute’s Choice), Gr1 Australasian Oaks winner Abbey Marie (Redoute’s Choice) and Gr3 Geelong Cup winner Runaway (Manhattan Rain).
His granddam Catshaan (Catrail) is a half-sister to the two-time Gr1 Takamatsunomiya Kinen winner Kinshasa No Kiseki (Fuji Kiseki).
Gr1 winner Vancouver (Medaglia d’Oro) has 133 foals in his first southern hemisphere crop and currently has five stakes performers. He is advertised at $30,250 at Coolmore Stud in New South Wales in 2020.