With the yard’s dual Durban July winner Do It Again failing to produce the goods, Justin Snaith enjoyed the back-up of his WSB Cape Town Met entry Hoedspruit to save the day in the R400 000 Glorious Goodwood Gr2 Premier Trophy at a sizzling Kenilworth on Saturday.
In a thrilling finish to a final Met prep for many of Saturday’s contestants, Fourie rode a peach of as he switched his mount to the inside and won with a good few cracks of the whip, but easing up in the final strides.
Richard Fourie pushes Hoedspruit down the inside as Super Silvano (Louis Mxothwa) runs a cracker at the weights (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
Hoedspruit powered home at 5-1 to beat Super Silvano (16-1) by a half length in a time of 109,09 secs.
Recent Peninsula Handicap winner Firealley (16-1) didn’t get to the front as is his preference, but stayed on well a head back in third.
His stablemate Sovereign Spirit (33-1) loomed dangerously late but was overtaken and stayed on well for fourth.
Richard Fourie said that the Algoa Cup winner’s prep wasn’t great coming into his last disappointing start and complimented the Snaith stable
A winner of 6 races with 5 places from 15 starts for SA Champion owner Suzette Viljoen, Hoedspruit, a R280 000 buy from the 2019 Cape Yearling Sale, has now earned R603 975,
The winner was bred by Wilgerbosdrift and Mauritzfontein.
He is by Legislate (Dynasty) out of the Trippi mare Londalozi, a full-sister to Gr2 Betting World Oaks third Shingwedzi and a three-parts sister to Perfect Promise Sprint winner Lesedi La Rona, who was acquired by Wilgerbosdrift at the 2017 Cape Mare Sale while carrying Hoedspruit!
Justin Snaith put the 7yo Do It Again’s run down to the foibles of age – “he runs the odd indifferent race but we will have him ready for the Met,” he added.
Do It Again was subsequently reported by the Stipes to have pulled up lame.
OFFICIAL RESULT
| TRAINER | JOCKEY | DISTANCE | BETTING | |||
| 1ST | 9 HOEDSPRUIT | SJ Snaith | R Fourie | 11/2 | ||
| 2ND | 6 SUPER SILVANO | B Crawford | L Mxothwa | 0.50 | 0.50 | 16/1 |
| 3RD | 3 FIREALLEY | C Bass-Robinson | A Domeyer | 0.10 | 0.60 | 14/1 |
| 4TH | 5 SOVEREIGN SPIRIT | C Bass-Robinson | G Cheyne | 0.75 | 1.35 | 33/1 |
| 5TH | 10 NATIVE TONGUE | SJ Snaith | S Khumalo | 0.20 | 1.55 | 25/1 |
| TIME OF RACE: 1 min 49.09 sec | ||||||
| Tote
Fav |
4 DO IT AGAIN | SJ Snaith | A Marcus | 2.80 | 5/10 | |
