While marginally in the Snaith shadow on the national log on stakes earned, trainer Paul Peter capped a hat-trick at Turffontein on Saturday to top the national charts with 94 winners this season so far.
Peter’s big winner on the afternoon was the clearly progressive Jackson filly Freed From Desire who made it four wins on the trot, and five victories in her last six starts, when she stormed home under Gavin Lerena to beat a fellow Narrow Creek product in the accomplished Big Burn to win the R150 000 Listed Swallow Stakes.
Breeder John Everett was thrilled with his farm’s stakes exacta and said that it was pleasing when his tinkering with Tesio and his personal formula worked out well.
Gavin Lerena steers Freed From Desire to victory (Pic – JC Photos)
“I have never been one to breed for to commercial influences and sending the Trippi mare Musical Romance to the top-class Jackson was the right mating by my calculations to produce a smart racehorse. She is clearly a very nice sprinter and her dam has a lovely Buffalo Bill Cody at foot. Interestingly, the second filly Big Burn’s dam Ignition Lady (Argonaut) also has a Buffalo Bill Cody at foot. I’m very happy!” he said.
Freed From Desire (6-1) was a few lengths off the speed early in the 1160m feature, but accelerated past her more fancied stablemate Big Burn (16-10) to win by 0,30 lengths in a time of 66,74 secs.
Freed From Desire was sold privately off Narrow Creek and has won 6 races with 4 places from 12 starts for stakes of R424 749.
She is a daughter of Ridgemont’s Heversham Park-based triple Gr1 winner Jackson (Dynasty).
