A Gimmethegreenlight half-sister to the well performed dual stakes winner Sheela (The United States), the dogs were barking about Justin Snaith’s Wild Wild Green and she duly delivered to win the R200 000 Flash Summer Coronation Plate at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday.
Wild Wild Green (JP van der Merwe) delivers the goods for Justin Snaith (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
The compact but athletic filly was a few lengths off the pace set by Between The Lines, her stablemate Whatastar and Walk Right In, before surging forward under JP van der Merwe to catch the pacy Whatastar (25-1) and go on to win by a length at 18-10 in a time of 60,4 secs.
Whatastar shouldn’t miss in similar company next time, while the Paul Reeves-trained Captain Of All filly Love Her Madly (33-1) came from the clouds to bank third cheque, a further half length back.
The first Hawwaam daughter to race in the Cape, Take It As Red (17-2) looked good in the preliminaries and ran a nice fourth, just 0,40 lengths further back.
“There is not much of her but when I squeezed she put her ears back. She’s all heart. She hit the front a bit green, but went on nicely,” added Winx-sponsored JP van der Merwe, who rode a well-judged race to win.
Justin Snaith has steadfastly supported the Cape Racing juvenile programme and it paid dividends again.
“I am not sure about my strike-rate as I have to put three or four in a race, but I want to support Cape Racing’s drive to bolster fields. Wild Wild Green won well. I only get their babies the last few months. But the Drakenstein set-up is superb and well done to their team,” added the SA champion.
“Her sister Sheela was a good sprinter. We are thrilled and well done to the teams and to Jenna who liked her early on,” added owner Gaynor Rupert.
Raced and bred by Drakenstein Stud, the winner is a daughter of champion sire Gimmethegreenlight (More Than Ready) out of the one-time winning Trippi mare, Trip To India.
