The Alan Greeff yard made it four straight victories in the R150 000 Listed Memorial Mile at Fairview on Friday when the Philanthropist gelding Grazinginthegrass finished best of all under a well-judged ride by Aldo Domeyer to score a courageous victory.
A year ago the Drakenstein product beat Snaith raider Nexus when the race was run on the turf. But with Friday’s meeting switched to the polytrack trainer Greeff felt his charge’s versatility would carry the day. And so it did.
Aldo Domeyer rides a determined finish to get Grazinginthegrass home ahead of Louis Mxothwa and Bush Tracker (Pic – Pauline Herman)
After Safari Blue had led the charge, Aldo Domeyer angled Grazinginthegrass (15-10) to the centre of the track and he powered home to repel the strong challenge of the younger Bush Tracker (4-1) to win by a quarter length in a time of 94,03 secs.
Khaya’s Hope (17-2) showed his last run was all wrong and stayed on well for third, a further 1,75 lengths back.
A leaner looking Domeyer, who has started his season well, was complimentary about Grazinginthegrass’ performance and said he felt like a 2000m horse.
Grazinginthegrass is raced in a partnership of the ASSM Racing Syndicate (Nom: Mr Arun Chadha), Mike de Kock and Mrs Noelene Malherbe.
By former Drakenstein Kris S sire Philanthropist, he is out of the five-time winning Singspiel mare, Candy Singer.
A R300 000 buy off the National Yearling Sale, the Alan Greeff-trained Grazinginthegrass has won 12 races with 12 places from 36 starts for stakes of R967 250.
Grazinginthegrass is raced in a partnership of the ASSM Racing Syndicate (Nom: Mr Arun Chadha), Mike de Kock and Mrs Noelene Malherbe.
By former Drakenstein Kris S sire Philanthropist, he is out of the five-time winning Singspiel mare, Candy Singer.
A R300 000 buy off the National Yearling Sale, the Alan Greeff-trained Grazinginthegrass has won 12 races with 12 places from 36 starts for stakes of R967 250.
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Training honours on the day were shared with a double apiece for Alan Greeff, last season’s champion Gavin Smith and the Sharon Kotzen yard.
Sharon Kotzen and Louis Mxothwa were the only combination on the day to achieve a double.
The next Fairview racemeeting is on Friday 11 August.
