Hollywoodbets-sponsored Corne Spies broke a mini drought at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday. The Vaal-based trained declared his love of racing on the East Coast when he unsaddled the Querari filly Supreme Quest after an overdue graded stakes score in the R175 000 Gr3 Umzimkhulu Stakes.
There wasn’t a happier bunch of connections in the winner’s enclosure all afternoon and there is no question that the consistent Supreme Quest bumped some decent peers in her endless feature campaigning. But on Sunday, she got it all right and looked the right horse in a seven horse field.
Anton Marcus steers Supreme Quest to her maiden graded stakes success (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
Starting a 2-1 favourite, Anton Marcus jumped Supreme Quest a length slow and had her settled five lengths off the sedentary paced leader Aisling.
Into the run for home, Marcus made no mistakes and even though Rachel Venniker tried to give them the slip on Kailene, the Spies runner never looked in doubt.
She glided into the lead at the 250m and went on to beat Kailene (7-1) by 1,40 lengths in a time of 85,96 secs.
Mike de Kock’s Bold Act (4-1) was a well beaten third, with Supreme Quest reversing the form of a recent defeat.
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A R90 000 National 2yo Sale graduate, the winner was bred by Gold Star Stud and has now earned R604 875 for 3 wins and 3 places from 13 starts.
A daughter of Maine Chance stallion Querari (Oasis Dream), she is out of the once winning Lecture mare, Supreme Lecture.
Supreme Quest will now target the WSB Fillies Guineas at Hollywoodbets Greyville on 7 May.
There are 25 Querari yearlings on the BSA National Yearling Sale on 28 and 29 April.
