Craig Zackey takes it easy on Kingdundee to win the feature (Pic – Pauline Herman)
Having his hand forced by a switch to the polytrack failed to stymie the prospects of Gavin Smith’s progressive 3yo Kingdundee, who ran out a facile winner of the non black-type R175 000 Fairview Flying Five on Friday.
With a superbly consistent form profile on the turf, Kingdundee’s maiden sortie on the polytrack held no fears for the son of The United States’ supporters who sent him off at 5-10 to enjoy watching poetry in motion by the class 3yo.
Craig Zackey has formed a winning partnership with the gelding, and had him tracking his year older stablemate First Origin, in a race where many of us anticipated Kingdundee doing the donkey work.
But relax he did, and at the 250m Zackey sent Kingdundee (5-10) on his way to beat First Origin (16-1) by 2,25 lengths in a time of 56,09 secs for the 1000m.
Raced and bred by longstanding owner Clive Murphy, Kingdundee has now won 5 races with 2 places from 8 starts and stakes of R461 250.
A son of Moutonshoek’s top-class Galileo stallion The United States, he is out of the one-time winning Duke Of Marmalade mare, Miss Marmalade
The Hollywoodbets-sponsored Gavin Smith team enjoyed three winners on the afternoon, with four seconds, two thirds and two fourths on the day.
The next Fairview racemeeting is on Friday 18 April, where the Listed East Cape Nursery heads the programme. Let’s hope the turf track is sorted out by then.
