With the Hollywoodbets Kenilworth sprint track running fast in near windless conditions, the Andre Nel-trained Candy Town ran the R250 000 Franschhoek Motor Museum Winchester Sprint Cup field clean off their legs with an impressive display of speed on L’Ormarins King’s Plate day.
And that’s how it’s done! A powerful performance from Candy Town under Serino Moodley (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
Something of a shrewd placement in a quality field off her 51,5kgs in the non-black type contest, the 4yo jumped flying under visiting KZN jockey Serino Moodley and was never headed as she bolted clear at 10-1 to beat the hard knocking Gr3 winner Questioning (6-1) by a length in a close to course record time of 56,79 secs for the 1000m.
Adam Marcus was clearly pleased with the return to form of his 7yo soldier Bereave (66-1), who filled the final PA slot a further 1,50 lengths back in third.
The place exotic was paying a minimum dividend of R3-40, with 162543 live tickets in a net pool of R553 668. The tote favourite Meu Capitano (7-2) finished a 4,50 length sixth and never got into the mix in a nippy affair.
Bred by Lai Plaissance Stud, Candy Town was a second feature winner on the day for Maine Chance stallion Querari and is out of the Captain Al five-time winner, Captain’s Flame, who also raced under the famous Plattner flag.
A winner now of 3 races with 5 places from her 10 starts, Candy Town took her stakes bank to R383 876.
