Durban-based Winning Form-sponsored Serino Moodley has proven himself something of a national feature ‘super sub’ and he popped up again at Turffontein on Saturday to ride a cracker on the Johan Janse van Vuuren 6yo Chyavana, who came from lengths off the gallop to win the R225 000 Allied Steelrode Listed Golden Loom Handicap.
The lesser fancied of the Van Vuuren trio, the Maine Chance Farms-bred Chyavana (25-1) was switched to the outside from near last at the 250m marker and flew late to nab the free-running 3yo Taxi To The Moon (5-2) late.
Serino Moodley produces Chyavana late to win going away (Pic – JC Photos)
Chyavana won by three quarters of a length to clock 56,84 secs for the 1000m in a race named in honour of a sprint champion we knew as ‘Goofy’.
The R1 million Pick 6 carryover injection fell way short of the projected R5 million, reaching R3 668 679-29. Moodley’s ride was pure genius, but only 159 120 combinations remained, with the exotic showing a minimum of R23-10 after the opening leg.
The winner’s stablemate Sheldon (10-1) looked dangerous late, but was relegated to third.
The winner is by Distorted Humor stallion Flower Alley out of the three-time winning Querari mare, Cosmic Light.
This was Chyavana’s first stakes success and he took his earnings to R775 250 with his eighth win and 7 places from 22 starts.
