Flying Home. E-Jet (Anton Marcus) powers home to win the Gr2 Colorado King Stakes
Two smart sons of Jet Master dominated the R300 000 Gr2 Colorado King Stakes run over 2000m at Turffontein on Saturday. Sean Tarry looks to have a very scopy sort on his hands in the lightly raced E-Jet, who celebrated his biggest payday to date.
One has to concede that beyond the top three, this nine horse field was probably not the strongest to go to post for this fairly well endowed feature, named in honour of one of our greats of days gone by.
But the well built 4yo E-Jet showed great resolve under Anton Marcus, to hold off a determined challenge by St John Gray’s Glorious Jet.
Our original selection Shogunnar ran a disappointing race after appearing to be in with every chance, and he took forever to pick up his feet, before being pipped late for third by the gallant Straw Market.
Shogunnar remains a very talented one time winner, and his Novice and Graduation Plate look there for the taking at any time.
Piere Strydom took Putney Flyer up to show the way, and the son of Miesque’s Approval led at a sedate gallop from E-Jet , Straw Market and Shogunnar.
Into the home run Putney Flyer stepped up the tempo from Straw Market in second, with E-Jet AND Glorious Jet taking off together.
At this stage Shogunnar was last, but not too far from the action.
Into the final 400m, the orange Javett silks glided into the lead as Glorious Jet started chasing, with Straw Market in the shake up.
But Marcus had plenty in hand and he shook the reins as his mount asserted his authority.
E-Jet won by 1,25 lengths in a time of 125 secs.
Glorious Jet ran on powerfully for second, while Straw Market pipped a rather disappointing Shogunnar for third.
The R1,4 million winning National Sale graduate is really beautifully bred. He is out of the five time winning Argentinian bred Equalize mare, Esmaltina, who raced for Geoff Woodruff.
The Scott Brothers bred E-Jet has won 4 races and registered 5 places from his 13 starts for stake earnings of R504 300.
This was his first stakes win, and it won’t be the last.
