The 4yo Vercingetorix filly Tomyris made it 3 wins from her last 5 starts when she powered home late to win the R185 000 World Sports Betting non black-type Scarlet Lady at Hollywoodbets Scottsville on Sunday.
Smanga Khumalo has Tomyris in charges as Mascherina (Gavin Lerena) chases hard (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
Raced by Glistian (Pty) Ltd, who had the sad misfortune of one of their horses suffering a catastrophic injury at Fairview on Friday, the superb effort by Tomyris (17-2) would have lifted the spirits after the Narrow Creek Stud product benefitted from a strong ride by Smanga Khumalo to beat the highly regarded favourite Mascherina (33-10) by 0,80 lengths in a time of 105,93s for the 1750m.
The De Kock charge Forgiveness (5-1) looked dangerous late, but was beaten 4,40 lengths further back into third.
A daughter of Vercingetorix (Silvano), the winner is out of the thrice winning Windrush mare, Hungry Heart.
A R360 000 Cape Yearling Sale purchase, Tomyris has won 4 races with 6 places from 15 starts for stakes of R383 807.
