Two Laurence Wernars home-breds dominated the finish of Saturday’s R300 000 Betway Gr3 Mother Russia Stakes at a wet Turffontein as Gimmefabulous finished best to crown a happy birthday double for trainer Adam Azzie.
A fabulous win from Gimmefabulous (Raymond Danielson) in a nail-biting finish (Pic – JC Photos)
Despite dropping his crop in the latter stages, Winning Form rider Raymond Danielson made it a ‘lucky’ thirteen winner of the term when extracting the very best out of the lightly-framed Gimmefabulous (10-1), who scored a career peak success with an eyecatching victory.
“We can stand here and make like we know it all, but things worked out well and we are very pleased for Laurence Wernars,” quipped birthday boy and winning trainer Adam Azzie.
Just when Philasande Mxoli looked to have made all the right moves on the forward galloping Miss Lia (28-10), the daughter of Talk Of The Town succumbed late and was overwhelmed by the Wernars duo.
Gimmefabulous (10-1) held off Salenio Peninsula (17-100 from the Johan Janse van Vuuren yard, to score by a neck in a time of 87,53 secs for the 1400m. Miss Lia (28-10) held on a further neck back in third.
The Azzie team had earlier saddled Just The Two Of Us to win the third under Muzi Yeni.
Bred by Laurence Wernars, Gimmefabulous is a daughter of champion sire Gimmethegreenlight (More Than Ready) out of the five-time winning Aussie-bred High Chaparral mare Being Fabulous.
Now a winner of 3 races with 2 places from her 7 starts, Gimmefabulous took her stakes bank to R357 963.
