Tevez will stick to similarly low key events for the rest of the season after romping home in the Racing. It’s A Rush Pinnacle Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday.
Aldo Domeyer (Nkosi Hlophe)
Those who made him evens favourite feared the pace was nothing like fast enough when he sat handy and struck the front fully a furlong from home but apparently Aldo Domeyer never had a moment’s doubt.
He said: “Tevez broke nicely, the gaps came at the right time and he was a bit more impressive than the length and a half margin would suggest.”
The six-year-old was the first leg of a treble that took Mike Bass to 90 for the season and daughter Candice said: “He went to Durban in the previous two years. The first time he bled and last year he didn’t do well so there is no point sending him again.
“He is a super little horse but he is not a robust sort and you have to be careful that you don’t overdo it with him. He has a short run but he is as honest as the day is long. There are only two more suitable Pinnacles left this season and he will run in both while next season he will have another go at the Merchants and the Cape Flying.”
Stable companion Our Mate Art, who created a significant impression when making a winning debut against older horses last Tuesday, is likely to step up to Grade 3 company in the Cape Of Good Hope Nursery on May 28.
This race attracted only 12 entries when it closed last Wednesday and three more were added after it was re-opened for 24 hours. A similar, less successful, approach was adopted with the Fillies Nursery and nothing could be added to the original ten.
However these include China Pearl, one of two winners for Brett Crawford on Saturday, and the potentially high class Miranda Frost who underwent an operation on her nose after weakening in the final 200m of the Perfect Promise. “There were various pustules in her nasal passage that had to be removed as they were causing infections,” said Joey Ramsden.
Tevez (Liesl King)
He chose a less drastic remedy for his own nasal problem, deciding that the best cure for a bad cold was to stay at home and supervise daughter Zara’s seventh birthday party – and so watched on TV when Donovan Dillon’s mount Table Bay (backed from 7-1 to 14-10) proved too good for his opponents in the first and when Jetano came right away in the final furlong of the 2 000m handicap.
Heavelon van der Hoven’s mount missed a recent trip to Port Elizabeth because of an eye infection and, according to assistant Ricardo Sobotker, Durban is now under consideration with the alternative being the Winter Oaks at the end of next month.
Richard Fourie, whose phone call to Billy Prestage for the ride on Castlewood in the Place Your Bets Maiden proved rewarding, is full of enthusiasm about Legislate’s new career as a stallion.
Fourie rode the horse in 14 consecutive races including all his victories and said: “Legislate was a spectacular racehorse, by far the best I have ridden. If he had gone overseas he would have won internationally. He is a strong individual and I am convinced he will be a stunning sire. I would stand in a queue to buy his babies.”
By Michael Clower
