Super Performer advertised his prospects for Thursday’s CRT Horses In Training Sale (in the Kenilworth parade ring) by making most of the running for an emphatic win in the seven furlong maiden at Durbanville on Saturday.

Corne Orffer and Brett Crawford decided to fit ear muffs and change tactics on the 15-1 shot and this certainly worked.  “He had been over-racing but here he was doing it comfortably in front,” said Crawford. “He is a typical Dynasty in that he just needs to strengthen up and find his feet.”

The gelding might not make much of a contribution to the Absa bank debt but there are more races to be won with him and he could easily fetch more than the R225 000 Mayfair Speculators paid for him as a yearling.

Canukeepitsecret leaves for Durban on Thursday with the rest of Vaughan Marshall’s KZN team after comfortably landing prohibitive 1-4 odds in the TAB Telebet Maiden Juvenile Fillies but seemingly she is a different type to her Allan Robertson-winning full sisters All Is Secret and The Secret Is Out.

M.J. Byleveld remarked that she is a bit smaller and Marshall added: “The others that I’ve had from this family were out-and-out sprinters but I think this one will go a mile.”

Marshall and his stable jockey followed up with Symphony in the Betting World Maiden but even this double hardly compensated them for the death of star two-year-old Zinedine from a pulmonary haemorrhage last weekend.

Richard Fourie, who dominated the rest of the card with a four-timer, got Jackson off the mark as a sire when making much of the running on Bountiful Strength in the opener and seemingly the Joey Ramsden-trained winner is better than the half-length verdict would suggest.

Fourie reported: “He seemed to be stuck in third gear because he didn’t like it in front and he was looking for company” while assistant trainer Ricardo Sobotker added: “He has natural speed – and shows a lot of it at home – as well as a lovely action and a nice turn of foot.”

However stable companion Carnage had a horrible time of things 35 minutes later. She took fright in the pens and burst through the gate, inflicting several wounds in her head and knocking out a tooth. She had to be scratched. Aldo Domeyer then sprang a 13-1 surprise on Sacred Arrow but, as he waited for his turn in the Tellytrack interview box, it was his boots that attracted all the attention.

They were reminiscent of those open-toe affairs that Fareed Anthony insisted on using because he found them lucky. Domeyer’s are not quite so bad but most of his rivals wouldn’t be seen dead in them.

Nor, apparently, are they ‘lucky’ boots. “I’m over that sort of thing,” he said. “But they are comfortable. I will get them repaired.”

They certainly didn’t stop him from completing a double for Candice Bass-Robinson on Queen Moira in the last.

Braam van Huyssteen’ colours were well to the fore and Fourie won on both Paddington for Ramsden and Royal Marine for Greg Ennion while the Paul Reeves-trained Dayonaut has now won three after just holding on under his unstoppable rider in the Supabets Handicap. Top weight Rommel, eased down from almost two furlongs out, was found to be lame.

By Michael Clower