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Today's Racing :

Final fling for A Daughter’s Legacy

BRENDAN PATHER

A Daughter’s Legacy is probably treated like a princess at the Riaan van Reenen stables having been by far the yard’s star performer this winter with a hat-trick of wins over the last two months.
The hat-trick included a Listed event, the Ladies Mile, and she looks all set for a shot at a Graded race. The lightly raced five-year-old Windrush mare gets her chance at Kenilworth on Saturday when she lines up in the Grade 3 Final Fling Stakes , a Weight-For-Age event run over 1 800m.
A Daughter’s Legacy is no stranger to this division having run a close second to Sunsational in this race last year. That run came as a surprise to many but probably not to her trainer, Van Reenen, who felt she was good enough as an early three-year-old to take on the likes of Mother Russia and Sparkling Gem in the 2008 Odessa. A Daughter’s Legacy’s form took a serious dip during her three-year-old summer campaign and again last season, after impressing with a few solid efforts in good company last spring, she seemed to go off the boil once the ground began to harden in November. Van Reenen decided to skip the rest of the summer and only brought her back out this May.
Many would have accurately predicted that A Daughter’s Legacy would need her first start back but few would have been ready for the fireworks that followed. The first win seemed reasonable as she was in receipt of 8kg from the in-form Ladonna in a Handicap but the next two wins would have had students of form, and handicappers, scratching their heads. In receipt of just 4kg from Ladonna in the Ladies Mile, A Daughter’s Legacy again accounted for her rival by the same margin – just under a length. She was improving, and quicker than the handicapper had expected. She proved that in her latest start when she once again bumped Ladonna, but this time at level weights, and beat her convincingly by more than two lengths. A Daughter’s Legacy is obviously a lot more effective in the winter going and is currently in the form of her life. She takes on a useful bunch of fillies and mares but she has plenty going for her, including the top young rider Derrick David in the irons, and a win on Saturday would not be out of turn. Her main dangers could be the in-form Sunbed and the classy Comebackanddance. Sunbed has been improving steadily all year and went close in the Winter Oaks two starts back. The four-year-old Silvano filly would probably prefer a fast run race but has the evergreen Karl Neisius up and a good draw to boot. Comebackanddance comes into this race on the back of three top class efforts in the Gr 2 KRA Fillies Guineas, Gr 1 Woolavington and the Gr 2 Gold Circle Oaks. She tired after going up handy from very wide draws in both the Woolavington and Oaks but was impressive in staying on well to snatch a place in the Fillies Guineas behind Gibraltar Blue. That type of form entitles her to the utmost respect in this line-up and she is a must inclusion in all Pick 6 perms. Desert Mirage and Gay Fortuna are not out of it on best form, especially the former who has a 2kg turnaround at the weights with A Daughter’s Legacy for a 2,55 length defeat last time. But as Ladonna found out, that does not necessarily mean that anything will change. Horses mature at different rates, thrive under varying conditions and peak at different times. For A Daughter’s Legacy, that time is now.

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