SA champion trainer Justin Snaith launched the 2025 WSB Cape Town Met day at a sun-drenched Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday in the best manner possible as Grant van Niekerk steered the Drakenstein raced and bred Wild Wild Green to a smooth victory in the R600 000 Heineken Listed Summer Juvenile Stakes.
1-2… Wild Wild Green (Grant van Niekerk) and stablemate Clair De Lune (Gavin Lerena) open the day for trainer Justin Snaith (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
A winner on debut of the Flash Summer Coronation Plate on Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas day in mid December, Snaith stable elect Wild Wild Green again showed that her heart outweighs her frame as she powered forward at 4-1 to get the better of her more experienced stablemate and 13-10 favourite Clair De Lune by 1,25 lengths in a time of 65,36 secs for the 1100m.
After winning on her Fairview debut last month Canford Cliffs daughter and Gqeberha challenger Instaworthy (16-1) was not disgraced, a further 2,25 lengths back in third.
A Gimmethegreenlight half-sister to the well-performed dual stakes winner Sheela (The United States), the compact but athletic Wild Wild Green is out of the once winning Trippi mare, Trip To India.
Despite pinning her ears back, she put her best hoof forward to make it two from two as she took her stakes earnings to R475 000.
