The Philippi-based yards of Justin Snaith and Brett Crawford grabbed the lion’s share of the spoils with four winners apiece at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday.
Brett Crawford’s four-timer included two feature victories versus Snaith’s one.
Louis Mxothwa has Solar Power in full cry to catch the obscured The Futurist (Craig Zackey) late in the race (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
Although Milnerton residents Candice Bass-Robinson and Piet Botha managed a winner each, it was clearly the Philippians who held the ascendancy in terms of fitness after weeks of heavy rains had left the Milnerton Training Centre tracks under water.
Watch Solar win the WSB Gr3 Pocket Power Stakes:
Brett Crawford and Louis Mxothwa dominated matters in the open age features, registering a double with Future Girl winning the WSB Listed Stormsvlei Stakes, and Solar Power running a cracker to snare free-striding stablemate The Futurist late to win the WSB Gr3 Pocket Power Stakes.
Future Girl (Louis Mxothwa) storms clear to register her maiden stakes success (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
The Drakenstein raced and bred Future Girl is a 3yo daughter of Futura (Dynasty) out of the one-time winning Trippi mare, Monte Carlo Girl. She took her tally to 2 wins with a place from 7 runs and stakes now total R176 775.
Watch Future Girl’s replay here:
The Klawervlei Stud-bred Solar Power is a 4yo gelded son of Dynasty (Fort Wood) out of the unraced Fastnet Rock mare, Egyptian Sky. A R750 000 Cape Premier Yearling Sale graduate, Solar Power has won 4 races with 6 places from 14 starts for stakes of R443 850.
The next Cape racemeeting is at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Wednesday 28 June.
