Milnerton trainer Candice Bass-Robinson and jockey Aldo Domeyer turned their early season Garden Route sortie into a rewarding trip after three frustrating seconds early on the Fairview Friday card, when the well-bred Querari mare Rainbow Lorikeet changed their luck with a second career stakes success in the R150 000 East Cape Paddock Stakes.
Rainbow Lorikeet (Aldo Domeyer) holds off tote favourite Time For Love under Muzi Yeni (Pic – Pauline Herman)
At the first East Cape racemeeting of the new term, the East Cape Paddock Stakes was the first of a double feature billing on the eight race card.
A winner of the Schweppes Listed Cape Classic as the sun set on the Cape Summer Of Champions earlier this year, the newly turned 4yo Rainbow Lorikeet (33-10) held off fellow Milnerton raider and tote favourite Time For Love (2-1), who finished full of running, to gain a gutsy three quarter length victory in a time of 97,92 secs for the mile.
Local star Luna Halo (11-2) was always in the mix after leading early, and was a further three quarters of a length back in third.
Rainbow Lorikeet is raced by the Yuppie Syndicate and was bred by Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein.
She is by Maine Chance resident Querari (Oasis Dream) and is out of the Silvano mare Nightingale, who coincidentally gave trainer Candice Bass-Robinson her maiden Gr1 success in the 2017 Klawervlei Majorca Stakes, when ridden by present day Hollywood Syndicate manager Anthony Delpech.
Rainbow Lorikeet has won 4 races with 6 places from her 13 starts for stakes of R464 701.
