Marco van Rensburg is clearly determined to make it a November to remember and after a good winner at Fairview on Friday, he grabbed a treble at Turffontein on Saturday, including a nice feature double.
Van Rensburg won the second race on Fanie Bronkhorst’s Big Boy Bruce, before a terrifically judged ride for top honours on Winchester Mansion in the Allied Steelrode Onamission Charity Mile.
Marco van Rensburg salutes as Olivia’s Way finishes powerfully to beat Rachel Venniker and Sukhumvit (Pic – JC Photos)
And it was a chance ride after Muzi Yeni’s unfortunate accident in the headline feature that saw him called up for a late substitution on Roy Magner’s Olivia’s Way in the R200 000 Allied Steelrode Gr3 Yellowwood Handicap.
Relaxed in midfield as Champagne Cocktail led the charge, Van Rensburg unleashed the progressive Olivia’s Way 300m from home as Forgiveness ranged up looking dangerous.
But things were under control and Olivia’s Way (17-2) powered home to beat the late-finishing tote favourite Sukhumvit (33-10) by 2 lengths in a time of 110,72 secs for the 1800m.
Forgiveness (4-1) failed to maintain her momentum and was a further 1,50 lengths back in third, with the 16-1 Lady Fallon kicking the quartet dividend in fourth.
Raced by Gerald Sadleir, the winner was bred by The Flying Stud and is a 3yo daughter of Pathfork (Distorted Humor) out of the one time winning War Pass mare, My Lovely.
She has now won three on the trot and took her tally to 4 wins with 2 places from 7 starts.
Olivia’s Way has won R308 750 in stakes and looks set to build on that.
