Friendless in the betting, the Garth Puller-trained Captain Bombshell carried too many guns for his old rival William Robertson in Sunday’s R200 000 African Holly Stakes at Hollywoodbets Scottsville.
With his trainer enjoying a well-deserved break in Sri Lanka and having his final run before export to Mauritius, Captain Bombshell (33-1) was always in the mix under SplashOut-sponsored jockey Siphesishle Hlengwa and got first run on the 6-10 favourite to beat the accomplished Highveld raider by 0,40 lengths in a time of 62,53 secs for the 1100m straight.
Siphesihle Hlengwa steers Captain Bombshell to a knockout victory (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
Sun Blushed (13-2) stayed on for third, with the consistent mare Shipholia (14-1) rounding off the quartet.
The twelve-time winning William Robertson has a habit of successfully raiding the KZN Capital City and ironically it was just under a year ago that Captain Bombshell won the Marula Stakes at the same track – his scalp was again William Robertson!
The Haras del Carmo-bred Captain Bombshell races for Ramraj Chintalloo and is a son of Captain Of All (Captain Al) out of the two-time winning Elusive Fort mare, Bombshell Girl.
The 5yo departs SA having won 5 races with 7 places from 24 starts for stakes of R502 875.
