The well travelled Indigo Magic gelding Prince Of Orange put his best foot forward under a peach of a ride by man-of-the-moment Gavin Lerena to give Candice Dawson’s CK Racing a big victory in the R250 000 WSB Heritage Consolation at the Vaal on Saturday.
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Gavin Lerena (black cap) gets low and serious as he drives Prince Of Orange to the line as third-placed Forest Fox challenges on the outside (Pic -JC Photos)
This was the fledgeling trainer’s biggest success to date since capturing the R200 000 RA Flamingo Mile in early August and she had her charge – who doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence with the way he travels to the start- tuned to the minute.
The blonde Ms Dawson trains a twenty-strong string for the Ralphs family and is based just outside Randjesfontein on a private training establishment.
With two of her three runners on Grand Heritage day lining up in the consolation race, it presented her major chance of striking and the talented 8-1 shot Prince Of Orange (trained previously by Roy Magner and Mike Azzie) produced a great finish to beat the persistent Counterstroke by a head in a time of 87,24 secs.
This was his first win in over twenty months – and Gavin Lerena’s fifth success on the day!
Forest Fox had looked dangerous for a long way and was a nostril away in third, with the classy Halve The Deficit 1,20 lengths back in fourth.
The Oldlands Stud-bred Orange Moon is a 5yo gelded son of Indigo Magic out of the seven-time winning Dominion Royale mare, Orange Moon.
A R120 000 National Yearling Sale graduate, he has won 4 races with 7 places from 23 starts and took his stakes earnings with this win to R440 150.