Muzi Yeni put some meat on the bone of Justin Snaith’s lead over Sean Tarry in the SA Champion Trainer title race, when he booted home four winners for the Philippi based team at Fairview on Friday.
Muzi Yeni drives Makazole through the middle as the obscured Mauritius Kestrel (Louis Mxothwa) and My Best Shot (Richard Fourie) keep up the pressure (Pic – Pauline Herman)
Riding like a demon on the day, Yeni booted home Dafne’s Daughter, Distinction and then capped a great day for the Snaiths when he got the Trippi colt Makazole up to win the R200 000 Listed Champion Juvenile Cup, before Gimme More Time hacked up in the last.
While the Yeni win stakes only totalled a modest R300 000 in total, it certainly gives Justin Snaith a bit of breathing space over the chasing Sean Tarry, ahead of the World Pool season ‘finale’ at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday.
The headliner on the eight-race programme, the Champion Juvenile Cup is the final feature of the 2023/24 racing season and went the way of the progressive Makazole, who bounced back from his unplaced effort on Hollywoodbets Durban July day in the Durban Gr2 Golden Horseshoe.
Set alight inside the final 250m, Makazole (33-20) won a nice race in a time of 85,30 secs.
Mauritius Kestrel (6-1) was always in the mix and held on well for second, with My Best Shot (3-1) in third.
The tote favourite Kingdundee threatened late, but appeared to encounter traffic issues and ran out of the money.
Raced by Nic Jonsson, Makazole was an R800 000 Cape Premier Yearling Sale purchase and was bred by Westward Bloodstock Ltd (Nom: Mrs F Carmichael), Mrs E Yates & Klawervlei.
He is a son of retired champion Trippi (End Sweep), out of the three-time winning Captain Al mare, Shamrock Wind, and has won 2 races with 2 places from 6 starts for stakes of R268 063.
Congratulations to the connections (Pic – Pauline Herman)
The final East Cape racemeeting of the season is scheduled for Monday 29 July 2023.
