Saturday looms as a big afternoon at Randwick for a pair of Pencarrow graduates who made their mark at Group One level last season.

Australian Guineas (1600m) winner Feroce (NZ) (Super Seth) will line up in the A$10m Golden Eagle (1500m), followed 35 minutes later by Queensland Derby (2400m) hero Maison Louis (NZ) (Super Seth) in the A$750,000 Rosehill Gold Cup (2000m).

Feroce was bred by Pencarrow Stud and is by Super Seth out of Corinthia (NZ) (O’Reilly), an unraced half-sister to the Group One Rosehill Guineas (2000m) winner De Beers (NZ) (Quest For Fame). Another half-sister, Lycia (NZ) (Montjeu), is the dam of Island Life (NZ) (Vadamos), who carried the Pencarrow colours to victory in the Group Three Sunline Vase (2100m) at Ellerslie in March.

Corinthia is the dam of three foals to race, all of them winners including Feroce and the Listed winner and multiple Group Two placegetter Siracusa (NZ) (Sebring).

Kilgravin Lodge offered Feroce at the 2023 Ready to Run Sale at Karaka, where he was bought for $160,000 by McKeever Bloodstock Ltd and Sutton Racing. Feroce has had 13 starts for three wins, four placings and A$1.49m in stakes.

Feroce’s career highlight came in the Group One Australian Guineas at Flemington on March 1, which made him the first Group One winner for his sire Super Seth. Notably, Pencarrow is a shareholder in that Waikato Stud stallion.

But Feroce’s three-year-old season also produced a second in a photo finish to the Group One Caulfield Guineas (1600m), third in the Group Three Carbine Club Stakes (1600m) and third in the Group Three CS Hayes Stakes (1400m).

The Dominic Sutton-trained gelding has returned to action as a four-year-old this season with a sixth in the Group Three The Heath (1100m), third in the Group One Sir Rupert Clarke Stakes (1400m) and eighth in the Group One Toorak Handicap (1600m).

Feroce will jump from gate 10 against a star-studded field in Saturday’s Golden Eagle, in which he will be ridden by Joshua Parr. The Golden Eagle is Race 8 at Randwick on Saturday and is scheduled to start at 4.45pm local time (6.45pm NZT).

Maison Louis, bred by Pencarrow and still part-owned by Sir Peter Vela, also comes from the first crop sired by Super Seth. His dam is Cote D’Or (NZ) (Makfi), who won eight races in the Pencarrow colours including the Listed Matamata Cup (1600m). Cote D’Or is the dam of three winners from three foals to race.

Cote D’Or is a half-sister to the Group Two winner Dolmabache (NZ) (Redoute’s Choice), Group Three winner Pure Elegance (NZ) (Redoute’s Choice) and Group Three-placed Les Crayeres (NZ) (Redoute’s Choice).

Their dam Our Echezeaux (NZ) (Zabeel) is a full-sister to Grand Echezeaux (NZ) (Zabeel), who won at Group One level and is the dam of quality racehorses and sires Darci Brahma (NZ) (Danehill) and Burgundy (NZ) (Redoute’s Choice).

Pencarrow offered Maison Louis in Book 1 of Karaka 2023, where syndicators Go Racing bought him for $250,000.

Trained by John O’Shea and Tom Charlton, Maison Louis has had nine starts for four wins, two placings and A$878,450 in stakes. He won three times in four starts between February and April, then made his mark in Queensland with a fourth in the Group Three Rough Habit Plate (2000m) and a triumph in the Queensland Derby.

Maison Louis has made a promising return so far as a four-year-old, finishing eighth in the Group Two Shannon Stakes (1500m) and an eye-catching last-start third in the Group Two Hill Stakes (1900m).

Dylan Gibbons will ride Maison Louis from gate two in Saturday’s Rosehill Gold Cup, which is Race 9 on the Randwick card with a scheduled start time of 5.20pm.