DO It Again made his mark on racing in South Africa at the weekend when he won a second consecutive Group 1 Durban July, having previously landed the Group 1 Queen’s Plate and the Group 1 Gold Challenge. He is only the fifth back-to-back winner of the continent’s greatest race in more than 120 years.

Do It Again is from the first crop of Twice Over, a son of Observatory (Distant View), who was trained by Henry Cecil to win 12 races including two Champion Stakes, a Coral Eclipse Stakes and the Juddmonte International. That initial crop also contained Sand And Sea who carried the colours of Investec boss Bernard Kantor, instrumental in Twice Over standing in South Africa, to land the Group 1 Tsogo Sun Gold Medallion over six furlongs as a two-year-old in 2017.

Twice Over is so far responsible for seven stakes winners and he stands at Klawervlei Stud. He is from one of the many successful families developed by Juddmonte and he raced until the age of seven. He was a stakes winning two-year-old, landing the Zetland Stakes, before going on to enjoy international acclaim, and he was multiple Group and Grade 1 placed.

On the dam side of the family, Do It Again is from a line firmly rooted in South Africa. He is out of the multiple Group 3 winner Sweet Virginia, from the first crop of by Casey Tibbs (Sadler’s Wells) who was trained in Ireland by Dermot Weld and ran second in the Grade 1 Secretariat Stakes in the USA.

Do It Again is the second stakes winner for Sweet Virginia and she is responsible also for Strongman (Stronghold) who is a 10-time winner to date, up to Group 3 level. Sweet Virginia is the best of the four winners from the unraced Millie Bovana (Royal Prerogative), a full-sister to the dual Group 1 winner Mill Hill.