While the headlines are probably getting a tad tired, the local racing banker arrived at short odds at Turffontein on Saturday!
The undisputed reigning Queen Of Turffontein, SA Horse Of The Year Summer Pudding took the next stride back to her champion best with a fluent win.
She scored her tenth victory from eleven starts, romping home in the R250 000 Gr2 Colorado King Stakes in style.
Rested 11 weeks after a below-par effort in the Gr1 Paddock Stakes at Kenilworth, Summer Pudding vindicated trainer Paul Peter’s confidence expressed to the Sporting Post in the build-up week that his charge was ‘fit enough’ to win her comeback start.
Stepping out 8kgs over her ideal racing weight – Peter quipped that we all have the problem as we get older – Summer Pudding was slow away, but raced up to her pacesetting stablemates in the straight to win going away by 3,50 lengths in a time of 124,36 secs.
Warren Kennedy steers Summer Pudding to her tenth victory (Pic -JC Photos)
Under Warren Kennedy, who has been aboard at 8 of her 10 victories, Summer Pudding (5-10) accounted for Divine Odyssey (30-1) easily in a marginally slower time that she won the WSB Summer Cup (124,07 secs) in November last year.
Steven Jell was on course to lead in the Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein-bred winner who has won 10 of her 11 starts for stakes of R2 239 500.
She is by champion sire Silvano (Lomitas) out of the seven-time winning stakes winner Cherry On The Cake(Strike Smartly) – the latter a half sister to SA Triple Tiara winner Cherry On The Top (Tiger Ridge).
Next stop is likely to be the Gr1 Premiers Champions Challenge at home base on 1 May.
Then the Vodacom Durban July beckons!
