Justin Snaith capped a terrific intercontinental feature weekend for the Drakenstein Stud team when Beware The Bomb led from start to finish under Richard Fourie to win the R200 000 Listed Stormsvlei Stakes at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Sunday.
Richard Fourie steers Beware The Bomb to victory as third-placed Fun Zone (Andrew Fortune) chases hard (Pic – Chase Liebenberg)
The burly 3yo daughter of Lancaster Bomber joined the Drakenstein weekend feature honours list, that included Lancaster Bomber’s 3yo son Eight On Eighteen, who won the Gr1 Daily News 2000, the Trippi filly Little Suzie won the Tote Gr2 Woolavington 2000, and Marksman Queen, the Rupert bred daughter of Dubawi who won the Listed Keertana Stakes at Churchill Downs.
Having her second start of the year after a short break, Beware The Bomb (33-10) bowled along out front in the back-stretch and then upped the ante down the winter course home straight o hold on smartly to beat the older Gold Poker Game (3-1) by 1,25 lengths in a good time of 110,08 secs for the 1800m.
The runner-up’s stablemate Fun Zone (8-1) stayed on best of the balance a neck back in third, with the tote favourite Time For Love (15-10) beaten out of the Place Accumulator in fourth.
Richard Fourie said that Beat The Bomb was a bit mouthy so they chose to let her run along.
“She’s a beautiful filly and very gutsy! I must thank Greg Bortz and Cape Racing for sorting out our watering equipment at Futura Park. This means we could maintain the track throughout the summer and she’s a product of that,” added the SA champion, who won’t be whinging after a productive weekend at the office.
A Drakenstein home-bred, Beware The Bomb is yet another feature winner sired by the farm’s ill-fated War Front stallion Lancaster Bomber and is out of the unraced Philanthropist mare, Shout Out Loud.
Now a winner of 3 races with 2 places from 7 starts, Beware The Bomb took her stakes earnings to R351 263
