Cape heavyweight rider Bernard Fayd’herbe returned from Dubai in fighting trim and rode three winners on Sun Met day – including a feature double – the first leg of which was the R150 000 Tattersalls Listed Summer Juvenile Stakes.
Miss Honey flies up the inside as Keagan De Melo gets low on Emerald Band (Pic – Chase Liebenberg Photography)
Fayd’herbe rode 2017 July winner Marinaresco in his opening Dubai World Cup Carnival start at Meydan last Thursday evening and returned home to fulfil his big day engagements.
He had the Candice Bass-Robinson trained Miss Honey well off the pace set recent runaway maide winner Emerald Band and PE visitor Wild Move early on.
At the 350m marker Miss Honey began making ground smartly down the inside and she got up in the shadow of the post to nab the free-striding Emerald Band and win by a neck in a time of 59,15 secs.
PE visitor Brandina ran a cracker to grab third a short head away at just her second start, with Warrior Tiger staying on well after checking late, to run a decent fourth.
The winner’s fancied stablemate Vandah’s Spirit, who had won impressively on debut three weeks earlier, had no finish and plodded into sixth position and 3,80 lengths off the winner.
Bred by Highlands, the winner is a daughter of the Sandown-based Ridgemont Highlands stallion Pathfork (Distorted Humor) out of the one-time winner Honey Bun (Fort Wood).
She was purchased for R90 000 by Sean Tarry off the CTS April Yearling Sale and has won 2 of her 3 starts with 1 place for stakes of R152 050.
