A pick-up ride for Anthony Andrews crowned four winners on L’Ormarins King’s Plate day for Justin Snaith when the handily weighted Future Swing stormed home at his first try at 2500m to win the R300 000 Glorious Goodwood Gr3 Chairman’s Cup.
Future Swing under Anthony Andrews seize the final victory of the day (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
Popularly labelled the lucky last, punters celebrated the ninth race with the arrival of the well-backed Future Swing (18-10) who was given a peach of a ride by Anthony Andrews.
The 2023 Algoa Cup winner looked stripped in the preliminaries and duly cut them down late to beat stablemate Triple Time (8-1) by 1,50 lengths going away in a time of 159,11 secs.
Sean Tarry would have been pleased with the performance of third placed Nebraas (25-2), who looks overdue to win again soon.
Bred by Drakenstein, Future Swing is a son of the 2015 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winner and former SA Horse Of The Year Futura (Dynasty), out of the twice winning Carousel Swing, a daughter of champion Trippi.
Raced in partnership by Drakenstein, Kalinga and Pamela Isdell, the winner is a John Freeman selected R600 000 National Yearling Sale graduate and a winner of 6 races with 7 places from 16 starts for stakes of R797 350.
It was a frustrating day for jockey Muzi Yeni who had arrived on course to fulfill his engagements but did not ride. He was stood down by the course Medical Officer at Fairview on Friday and the Stipes noted that rule 25.12 was not applied, but that he had to be passed fit to continue riding prior to his engagement today.
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