Sean Tarry introduced an exceptional two-year-old in Cloth Of Gold at Kenilworth on Saturday and she now returns to Johannesburg to compete for some of the top juvenile prizes there.

The R2.2 million Captain Al half-sister to Silver Mountain may have beaten unknown quantities – four of the other five were also unraced – but she won with devastating ease, coming right away to score by six lengths.

S’Manga Khumalo said: “I think she is very special and there is more to come.”

Tarry (pictured) added: “I was a little anxious because she is no easy baby but, if we can just keep a lid on her temperament, I think she is the real deal. She is top class but she is a challenge because of that temperament.”

The winner is owned by a mixture of some of the biggest names in South Africa and Ireland with Messrs Jooste, Kantor and Van Niekerk being joined by classic-winning breeder Diane Nagle and Linda Shanahan whose husband Paul has long been one of the key men in Coolmore.

Joey Ramsden ,who trained the filly’s dam Our Table Mountain, did not have a winner but he still went home a happy man. He is to train Silver Coin, the R6 million colt who smashed the South African yearling record at the Convention Centre on Thursday evening. He was bought by Coolmore’s M.V. Magnier and Markus Jooste.

By Michael Clower