Trainer Paul Peter may not be giving his Cape rival and ruling SA champion Justin Snaith sleepless nights quite yet.
But after three Paul Peter winners, including a feature double, at Turffontein on Classic Day and with two months of the Highveld Season left, there is only R1 million in it.
Snaith has trained 104 winners at a 13% strike rate, with gross stakes of R12 457 338 versus Peter’s log-topping 128 winners at an 18,7% strike with the Gauteng yard’s runners having grossed R11 498 688.
With the SA Champions Season stakes pot having been dramatically boosted, and Snaith a key player there historically, the Capetonian may well fancy his chances of defending his SA title.
Pin Up (Warren Kennedy) charges home (Pic – JC Photos)
But for now the Peter team are on song and the first of their feature strikes on Saturday was Pin Up who romped home under Warren Kennedy to win the R200 000 Gr3 WSB Club Prive Acacia Stakes. The feature was scheduled a week earlier and reslotted after the final two races of the Turffontein meeting was lost to rain.
Warren Kennedy brought Pin Up (5-1) with a sustained late rain to get the better of evergreen 8yo Rouge Allure (25-1) by 3 lengths in a time of 99,50 secs.
The eyecathing finish of the race was the rousing run in fourth by Sean Tarry’s Seeham (16-1), who came from miles back into the home straight.
Pin Up was bred by Eenfontein Stud and is a 61st stakes winner for Avontuur’s Danehill stallion Oratorio out of the Model Man mare Centrespread.
A R50 000 buy from the 2018 April Yearling Sale, Pin Up has won 6 races with 6 places from 17 starts for stakes of R417 475.
