Another raceday, another Drakenstein raced home-bred winner! The champion breeders maintained their extraordinary season when the Sean Tarry-trained Silver Hills upstaged the males to register her maiden stakes success, and win the R225 000 Betway Listed Wolf Power 1600 at Turffontein on Saturday.
Silver Hills (Serino Moodley) upstages the males to register her maiden stakes success (Pic – JC Photos)
The Drakenstein machine celebrated on L’Ormarins King’s Plate day, as well as at Fairview on Friday, and it was champagne again on Saturday.
After Unzen had showed the way for much of the 1600m journey, the son of Erupt came under pressure on the soft ground, as the fancied Silent War looked dangerous momentarily.
But the favourite’s effort petered tamely, and it was left to the only member of the fairer sex in the nine-strong field to turn on the jets under Serino Moodley, who was grabbing his second Turffontein feature seeks in as many weeks.
Silver Hills (20-1) stayed on strongly to hold Unzen (4-1) by 0,15 lengths in a time of 99, 2 secs.
Bred by Drakenstein, the winner is a daughter of late multiple champion sire Silvano (Lomitas) out of the four-time winning dual Oaks victress Ash Cloud. That makes Silver Hills a half sister to the 2024 World Sports Betting Met entry Pacaya (Trippi).
A winner of 3 races with 4 places from 9 starts, the Gr1 placed filly took her stakes earnings to R414 875.
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