A runner-up in the Gr2 Cape Merchants last month, Adam Marcus’ smart 4yo Bereave is consistency personified and deservedly registered his first stakes success when running out an easy winner of the R110 000 Listed Southeaster Sprint at a sundrenched Kenilworth on Saturday.
Always in the firing line in the 1100m dash, Craig Zackey sent the son of Vercingetorix forward at the 250m and always looked to have matters in control.
Craig Zackey has Bereave in control (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
A popular winner, Bereave went off a 2-1 favourite, and beat the evergreen Pleasedtomeetyou by 1,25 lengths in a time 63,86 secs.
The quartet slots changed complexion late, with Resonate popping up at 4-1 to snare third a further 0,20 lengths back, with Safe Return (10-1) the same distance away in fourth.
A versatile sort and a winner around the turn earlier on, Bereave is a son of high-riding Maine Chance stallion Vercingetorix (Silvano) out of the Cataloochee mare, Jeanre.
He has been a model of consistency, earning at every one of his outings, winning 4 races with 5 places from his 9 starts for stakes of R252 775.
With no benefit of a carryover boost, the Pick 6 reached a nett pool of 1 072 232. The exotic was paying R2-80 after the popular opening leg.
OFFICIAL RESULT
| TRAINER | JOCKEY | DISTANCE | BETTING | |||
| 1ST | 3 BEREAVE | AN Marcus | C Zackey | 2/1 | ||
| 2ND | 2 PLEASEDTOMEETYOU | WA Nel | G van Niekerk | 1.25 | 1.25 | 5/1 |
| 3RD | 9 RESONATE | C Bass-Robinson | A Andrews | 0.20 | 1.45 | 4/1 |
| 4TH | 8 SAFE RETURN | VH Marshall | K de Melo | 0.20 | 1.65 | 10/1 |
| 5TH | 7 WALK OF FAME | B Crawford | G Cheyne | 0.40 | 2.05 | 20/1 |
| TIME OF RACE: 1 min 03.86 sec | ||||||
| Tote
Fav |
3 BEREAVE | AN Marcus | C Zackey | _________ | 2/1 | |
