Rocky. That was one way to describe the landscape for exotic punters at Fairview on Friday. And the conditions weren’t helped with the failure of East Cape Horse Of The Year World Radar to produce her true form in the day’s feature, the R85 000 Listed East Cape Breeders Stakes.
Three tote favourites won over the eight races on the East Cape turf, and one of those missing was the odds-on World Radar, who simply didn’t put her best hoof forward and ran out of the money as her gutsy Alan Greeff-trained stablemate Carioca stayed on powerfully at 7-1 to give Avontuur jockey Luke Ferraris his second winner of the day, and beat the 66-1 Forest Field by a half length in a time of 69,53 secs.
Luke Ferraris gets Carioca staying on powerfully to hold off Calvin Habib on outsider, Forest Field (Pic – Pauline Herman)
But couplings count for less than nothing these days as the Jackpot dividend of R43 654 reflected the mayhem.
The Pick 6 was only won by a fraction, paying out R465 528-90, with R350 836-60 carried over to who knows when.
The Avontuur-bred victress is the 55th black type winner for the top Stellenbosch farm’s senior statesman Var and is out of the General Nediym mare Miss Ipanema-a three time winner over 1400m and runner up in the Gr3 Umzimkhulu Stakes.
A R1 million 2017 Cape Premier Yearling Sale graduate, Carioca has now won 9 races with 12 places from 35 starts for stakes of R524 700.
