With a limited Gauteng satellite string, Joey Ramsden is delivering the results and the Milnerton magician would have gained plenty of satisfaction when his Cape summer seaon bridesmaid Rose In Bloom charged to victory in the Listed Gardenia Stakes at a rainswept Turffontein on Thursday.
Craig Zackey and Rose In Bloom are well clear of the opposition (Pic – JC photos)
With fine timing on part-owner Kathy Finch’s birthday, which she celebrated in London with husband Brian, Craig Zackey produced the 18-1 shot from off the gallop to win by a length and a quarter in a time of 57,57 secs.
In second place was Gr3 Tommy Hotspur Handicap winner Wrecking Ball, with her paternal half-sister, and favourite, Green Plains, back in third place – and bizarrely paying over R3 a tote place!
Rose In Boom’s last run in the Joburg Spring Challenge when pulled up by Piere Strydom was proven all wrong.
The Stipes reported then that she jumped awkwardly which resulted in her hitting her right side of her head on the starting stall gate.
Thereafter Jockey Strydom reported that he felt something amiss with her in running and did not persevere with his riding from the 300m. The Veterinary Surgeon was requested to examine this filly. Nothing obvious was detected.
A dual stakes winner, Rose In Bloom has now won 4 races and been placed 10 times from 18 starts for stakes of R678 213.
Bred by Ridgemont Highlands, Rose In Bloom is out of the eight time winner Raise The Bar (Goldkeeper).
Her G1 L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate winning sire has now produced three feature race winners in November with Gimmethegreenlight sons National Park and Stream Ahead having won the recent Gr3 Graham Beck Stakes and Listed KZN Guineas Trial respectively.
Our Champion First Crop Sire of 2015-2016, Gimmethegreenlight is currently one of South Africa’s leading active sires by earnings, with his runners having already banked in excess of R2.9 million this season.
