An 8yo former East Cape Derby winner marked his 61st run just a week after he was headed for retirement as a riding hack, when winning the R175 000 Listed Glenlair Trophy at Fairview on Friday.
Racing in the Delma Sherrel silks, American Landing won the 2018 WSB East Cape Derby under Richard Fourie when trained out of Cape Town by Brett Crawford.
Kendall Minnie steers American Landing to an easy victory (Pic – Pauline Herman)
Now a longstanding resident of the Alan Greeff yard, and still campaigning for the Sherrell family, American Landing relished the decent pace in the 2800m Friday feature to draw clear at 10-1 under Kendall Minnie to beat the topweighted favourite Jaeger Moon (7-2) by 4,25 lengths in a time of 178,55 secs.
The forward galloping Wildest Dreams, a stablemate to the winner and also sired by the evergreen Dynasty, stayed on in third.
A big day for the Greeff supporters! (Pic – Pauline Herman)
American Dream was purchased off the De Broglio dispersal on the 2017 BSA August Kenilworth Sale where he was the top-priced lot at R1,6 million.
A son of Dynasty (Fort Wood), the winner was bred by Mike de Broglio and is out of the versatile five-time winner Sabina Park (Sportsworld), who won the SA Oaks in 2004. That makes him a full-brother to the Gr2 Gerald Rosenberg Stakes winner Sabina’s Dynasty and a half brother to dual Summer Cup winner Master Sabina (Jet Master).
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A winner of 2 of his last 4 starts after an extended dry spell, American Landing has won 6 of his 61 starts for 27 places and stakes of R786 857.
Alan Greeff enjoyed a red-letter day, with 6 winners, 4 of which were ridden by Richard Fourie.
