Jet Dark Again – Jocks Pay Price In Boardroom

SA Horse Of The Year tite race is on

Justin Snaith holds two of the aces in the SA Horse Of The Year title chase. After Captain’s Ransom downed the fast set to win the Gr1 Mercury Sprint, it was stablemate Jet Dark who threw his hat in with a big performance to win the R1 million Gr1 HKJC World Pool Champions Cup at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Saturday.

In a race that was marred with heavy ( we are talking R45 000 plus time) whip rule contravention fines for both the first and second finishing jockeys, Drakenstein Stud’s evergreen champion sire Trippi ended the 2021-2022 South African racing season on a high, thanks to his champion son Jet Dark’s successful defence of his title.

Richard Fourie has Jet Dark in front as Gavin Lerena tries hard on Kommetdieding (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)

Jet Dark downed the subsequently exported Catch Twentytwo when victorious in the 2021 renewal.

Under an inform Richard Fourie, four-year-old Jet Dark raced midfield for much of the running in as his stablemate Crown Towers made the running.

Fourie brought Jet Dark with a sustained run down the inside of the track, and the pair settled down to fight out a thrilling finish with Kommetdieding, which saw Jet Dark prevail by a neck.

It was another two and a quarter lengths back to 2022 Gr1 TAB The Premier’s Champions Challenge winner Astrix who finished third.

It was a fourth Gr1 win for Jet Dark, who also captured the Gr1 LÓrmarins Queen’s Plate in both 2021 and 2022. The classy colt, Equus Champion 3YO Colt and Champion Miler of 2020-2021, had also finished runner up in both the 2022 Gr1 World Sports Betting Cape Town Met and Gr1 Hollywoodbets Durban July.

Bred by Drakenstein Stud, the Justin Snaith trained Jet Dark has now won seven of 16 starts for earnings of R4 171 600.

Jet Dark, who is out of the Jet Master mare Night Jet, was a R200 000 buy from the 2019 National Yearling Sale.

His champion sire Trippi has had another fine season in 2021-2022 being responsible for nine stakes winners in South Africa – more than the likes of Master Of My Fate, Querari and Rafeef.

When Jet Dark was runner-up in the Hollywoodbets Durban July earlier this month, Bernard Fayd’Herbe signed an admission of guilt for a contravention of Rule 58.10.2 in that he mis-used his crop by striking the colt 17 times and was fined R10 000.

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