After success in the fairer sex nurery, Justin Snaith made it an early feature double at Kenilworth on Saturday when Richard Fourie rode a perfectly judged race to win the R110 000 Listed Kenilworth Cup off a muddling pace.
The 3200m feature continued the trend of the afternoon with the third five horse feature field in a row, and the pace was always going to be the dealmaker.
The Snaith pair go down to the wire – Richard Fourie getting Bayberry home ahead of Grant van Niekerk and Silver Sky (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
With 3 of the 5 runners, the tactical edge lay with the Snaiths and Luke Ferraris stretched them early on topweight Strathdown who escaped to lead.
Halfway around the turn, Anthony Andrews hustled Dharma forward to speed matters up.
In the sprint for home they were fanned across the track with the left handed Richard Fourie riding a confident finish on Bayberry (2-1) to withstand a flying late effort from the lightly weighted Silver Sky (3-1).
The Snaith duo went to the line as one – but Bayberry always looked to have matters in hand and held on to win by a head in a time of 213,05 secs.
The consistent Troop The Colour (5-1) ran another game race to earn again in third, and 1,75 lengths off second. Strathdon faded out.
Showing his last run to be all wrong – he was harboruing a virus according to Justin Snaith – Bayberry has been on the fringes and could no go on after this confidence booster.
A R1 million National Yearling Sale purchase, Bayberry has won 2 races with 5 places from 12 starts for stakes of R198 250.
The winner was bred by Wilgerbosdrift & Mauritzfontein and is a son of Flower Alley (Distorted Humor) out of the twice-winning Danehill Dancer mare, Berry Blaze.
