KZN trainer Dennis Drier must fancy his chances of lifting the prestigious Cape Fillies Guineas trophy in early December after the high-riding Philanthropist’s smart daughter Sail dished out a galloping lesson to her rivals at Kenilworth on Wednesday.
Sail – ran a great trial under Sean Veale at Kenilworth on Wednesday
The multiple stakes placed Sail was having only her second start of the summer in Cape Town when going from gun to tape in the 1400m Progress Plate to beat Gr1 Allan Robertson Championship winner The Secret Is Out by two lengths.
It was an impressive Guineas trial by the Drakenstein owned and bred beauty, and it was made all the more meritorious as she made her own pace and quickened readily when asked.
This was in sharp contrast to her storming late arrival in the Gr2 Choice Carriers Championship when just failing to catch Mike de Kock’s Ektifaa. The two are likely to meet again in the classic.
The Secret Is Out had finished 3 lengths behind Sail in the Choice Carriers from a soul destroying draw, and ran a much better race today.
That said, the mile of the Guineas and Sail’s superiority over the trip may have Vaughan Marshall reconsidering The Secret Is Out’s programme.
Sail is just another of the Philanthropist progeny making waves in recent months.
His grey daughter, the Avontuur-bred She’s A Giver, stamped herself as a classic prospect with a first local stakes win for the exciting stallion in the Gr3 Starling Stakes at Turffontein a fortnight ago.
On the same afternoon Philanthropist went very close to having an international graded double when his stakes winning daughter Hot Kiss was beaten a nose in the Gr3 Maple Leaf Stakes at Woodbine.
Philanthropist has five lots on offer at the upcoming CTS Johannesburg Ready To Run Sale.
