Award-winning trainer Dennis Drier holds yet another trophy
KZN Champion trainer Dennis Drier broke the ice with his third runner of the 2016/17 Cape Summer Of Champions Season at Kenilworth on Wednesday.
The Drier KZN raiding party arrived in the Cape under three weeks ago and the veteran horseman will be pleased to have opened his account early on in what is likely to be a tough campaign in the top league.
The Lammerskraal Stud-bred Premier Dance – a beautifully bred half sister to Summerhill sire and champion miler Capetown Noir – maintained her perfect two-from-two record with a smooth victory in the MR 84 Handicap run over the 1200m straight.
Stable jockey Sean Veale, a born and bred Capetonian, produced the daughter of Silvano at the right moment to beat the more experienced Trippi’s Girl by 0,75 lengths in a time of 71,98 secs.
Premier Dance (Sean Veale) wins on debut at Greyville, beating Expresso Martini
Premier Dance, who races in the familiar big-race red and white silks of longstanding owners Mike and Norma Rattray, opened her win account over 1400m on the Greyville polytrack in mid-September.
She looks a Cape Fillies Guineas candidate with more improvement to come,
Drier saddled a two -timer at Scottsville on the same afternoon, with Keagan De Melo, who rode a cracking four winners, booting home his double of Seattle Skyline and Hallowed Spring.
Hack Green – Cape Guineas candidate
The Drier attack is based at Phillipi with a 25-strong string headed by the undefeated Gimmethegreenlight colt Hack Green, whose chief target will be the Gr1 Cape Guineas on 17 December.
