Candice Bass-Robinson and Aldo Domeyer teamed up to win the R200 000 Summer Country Championship 1800 Final as the Hollywoodbets Kenilworth Pick 6 results remained on a popular early track on Saturday.
Cape Racing’s Felix Guni hands Aldo Domeyer a bottle of bubbly for post-race celebrations! (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
The second of the five Summer Country Championships R200 000 finals went according to plan as the lightly raced Pomodoro gelding La Pulga endorsed his post-maiden consistency when produced late by Aldo Domeyer for a fluent victory and his biggest career payday.
La Pulga (33-10) clocked 112,64 secs for the 1800m and beat the revitalized 6yo Gentleman Joe (25-2) by 1,75 lengths, with the tote favourite Groovejet (7-2) rattling through from some way off for third. His stablemate Kwite A King (5-1) rounded off the quartet.
Bred by Millstream Farm, La Pulga is by July winning Jet Master stallion Pomodoro out of the well-performed five-time winning Al Mufti mare, Gilden Minaret.
A R275 000 Cape Premier Yearling Sale buy, La Pulga – which directly translated from Spanish means ‘flea’ – has now won 2 races with 3 places from 7 starts for stakes of R229 200.
The 3yo gelding races for a partnership of Philip Bamford, Andrew Brand, Monty Govender and Marsh Shirtliff’s Greenacres Trust.
The Pick 6 minimum jumped to R17,90 after the second leg, with 27609,59 combinations in the mix still.
