Captain’s Daughter holds on to beat Euphoria for a first stakes victory
Top jockey Anton Marcus rode a hat-trick of feature victories at Scottsville on Sunday and declared himself ‘pleasantly surprised’ with the gutsy win by Charles Laird’s Captain’s Daughter in the R135 000 Listed The Scarlet Lady run over 1750m.
Marcus was in top form but he had to probably produce his own personal most committed effort to get the 4yo home after she had looked beaten halfway down the home straight.
With Cape visitor Zacharias dawdling out of the gates, Marcus tracked the free-striding San Trip with Michael Roberts’ mare Alina in his wake.
Into the home run, San Trip looked to have no intentions of lying down as she kicked again with Marcus angling Captain’s Daughter to the outside for her run.
Gauteng visitor Euphoria was also making good ground and looked dangerous as they fanned across the track at the 300m with chances to a few.
Into the final 150m, Captain’s Daughter had a length to make up and she dug deep as Euphoria flew to cut her lead to a length and deny the game San Trip.
Captain’s Daughter’s winning time was 104,70 secs.
Anton Marcus said that looking at the race ratings, he was pleasantly surprised by Captain’s Daughter’s performance and suggested she had more heart and courage than raw ability.
It was a well deserved first stakes win for Captain’s Daughter who was yet another feature winner for Captain Al on the weekend.
She was bred by Klawervlei out of the six-time winning National Emblem mare, Blow Your Mind.
A R400 000 Cape Premier Yearling Sale Book 1 graduate, she took her earnings to R494 925 at her fifth win, with ten places, from nineteen starts.
