A recipient of two regional awards for outstanding performances last season, the ultra consistent and super versatile Marmara Sea started his 5yo term in style when he registered his eleventh career victory in the R90 000 Friendly City Stakes at Fairview on Friday.
The non black-type feature presented the Alan Greeff-Aldo Domeyer combination with their third winner of the day when the smart gelding stayed on powerfully as a 5-2 favourite to beat Cape challenger Love Happens (4-1) by a convincing 1,75 lengths in a time of 114,30 secs.
Aldo Domeyer poses as Marmara Sea charges home (Pic – Pauline Herman Photography)
Suzette Viljoen’s game mare Rattle Mouse ran a cracker at any price, to bank the third cheque a neck away.
The winner of the East Cape Champion Older Male and Polytrack Colt / Gelding of the season, Marmara Sea just doesn’t how to run a bad race – and he’s good on both surfaces.
A winner of 11 races with 6 places from his 20 starts, Marmara Sea has banked over R460 000 and looks set to be a campaigner to follow again.
The Wilgerbosdrift and Mauritzfontein Stud-bred winner is by the deceased international champion Soft Falling Rain (National Assembly) and a first foal for the Australian-bred Alboran Sea, who raced for the same Slack-Javett partnership.
Alboran Sea raced only 10 times for five wins and four places, amassing stake earnings of R2,062-million.
She won the Gr1 Cape Flying Championship and the Gr1 Computaform Sprint in one season.
Alboran Sea was an A$105 000 Inglis Premier purchase. By Rock Of Gibraltar she is out of the US bred daughter of Toolighttoquit, Lady’s Light.
Bred by Rosemont Stud, Alboran Sea hails from a big American Black Type family.
