Dean Kannemeyer is planning a Cape Town campaign for the unbeaten Hashtagyolo who has twice got the better of Snowdance’s Daisy Fillies Guineas conqueror Fiorella.

The Dynasty filly is now back in Kannemeyer’s Summerveld yard after a lengthy recuperation at part-owner Bruce Le Roux’s Spring Valley Stud in Mooi River. She was ante-post favourite for the Gauteng Fillies Guineas in March before picking up a nasty virus that involved two spells in a Johannesburg equine hospital.

Hashtagyolo

Kannemeyer said: “She returned to me three weeks ago and she is doing well once more – she is moving nicely and her head is in the manger- but I am not going to push her in what is left of the Durban season. Instead I aim to take her to Cape Town where she will hopefully return to her best.

“She was a big gangly filly when she was racing before but she could be even better than I thought because twice she met Fiorella and twice she annihilated her.”

In the KZN Fillies Guineas Trial at Greyville last October Hashtagyolo beat Fiorella by a length and three-quarters but the Duncan Howells-trained filly was over four lengths back fifth when Hashtagyolo won the Grade 3 Flamboyant Stakes at the Durban course on New Year’s Eve.

Track Attack, the Dynasty half-brother to Yorker that topped the National Yearling Sale at R5.2 million, has gone to Jane Thomas’s Far End pre-training operation in Mooi River and is due to start being broken next month.

The colt was bought for Lady Laidlaw’s Khaya Stables for whom Kannemeyer won the 2015 Vodacom Durban July with Power King.  Kannemeyer will also train the second top lot for the same owner. This is Captain Cherry, a R4.75 million Captain Al colt out of champion Cherry On The Top, and he stays with vendors Mauritzfontein until the time comes for him to go into training.

By Michael Clower