Candice Bass-Robinson and Gareth Wright broke the Snaith-Van Niekerk stranglehold on the Hollywoodbets Kenilworth racemeeting on Saturday when the Lancaster Bomber filly Beach Bomb exploded through to paralyse her opposition in the R200 000 WSB Listed Irridescence Stakes.
Trying the turn for the first time after a runaway maiden victory in the wet last month, the Drakenstein bred and raced Beach Bomb (15-2) charged down the middle to score a facile 3 length victory in a time of 99,57 secs for the 1500m.
Gareth Wright has Beach Bomb out in front (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
Glen Kotzen’s Royals (25-2) was always thereabouts and stayed on well into second, with her 40-1 maiden stablemate Passchendaele running into third.
The diminutive winner was described by jockey Gareth Wright as ‘not having much of a rein’, but everything works below that and she has an explosive turn of foot.
A daughter of deceased War Front stallion Lancaster Bomber, Beach Bomb is the third stakes winner from the the popular five-time Gr1 winner Beach Beauty (Dynasty).
The best of the family are Wild Coast, a colt by Trippi, and Amamzimtoti, a filly also by Trippi, as well as stakes-placed stayer Rex Union (Duke Of Marmalade).
But despite her lack of physical presence, Beach Bomb could be anything come the summer, so let’s wait and see!
The winner has won 2 of her 3 starts for stakes of R193 125.
On a day that was playing ball for favourite backers until this race, the performance of the winner’s odds-on stablemate October Morn was a blow for punters,
Top jockey Richard Fourie was on the mark with his reservations that the hot favourite could be found out around the turn on the sticky going and she duly ran out of the money.
“She’s probably a better sprinter and she will find her feet back down the straight,” added jockey Aldo Domeyer.
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