Drakenstein Stud stallion Duke Of Marmalade produced his 45th black type winner when his progressive daughter Miss Orange captured Friday’s Listed Glenlair Trophy at Fairview.
The distance of the third feature race of the afternoon was reduced to 2750m after the surface condition enforced switch from turf to the poly. Showing great versatility and courage, Miss Orange registered her first stakes strike, banking the R51 000 first cheque in style under a delighted Kendall Minnie.
Kendall Minnie salutes as Miss Orange storms clear (Pic – Pauline Herman)
The Birch Bros bred 4yo had won two of her last three starts, and picked up her first black type win with a convincing score.
Meeraas went out to make the running, with Cape raider Troop The Colour keen just off the pace, and tMiss Orange, well off the gallop early on.
The front runner was quickly swallowed up as the field turned for home, and Troop The Colour hit the front 300m out, only to be challenged and passed by the favoured Warrior Bling and Aranjuez, and then by the Kendall Minnie partnered Miss Orange.
The latter unleashed a sparkling turn of foot which saw her soar past the favourite and go on to salute by a length and three quarters.
Now a winner of seven of her 19 starts, the Alan Greeff trained Miss Orange, who has now won from 1000-2750m, claimed her biggest victory by scoring in a time of 168,94 secs.
Bred on the same Duke Of Marmalade/Fasliyev cross as Gold Cup winner Big Orange, Miss Orange is out of the winning Fasliyev mare Eleonora.
Her five time Gr1 winning sire Duke Of Marmalade, whose other notable daughters include the Gr1 winners Simple Verse, Sound Of Freedom, Star Of Seville and Temple Grafin, has been in a rich vein of form of late, with the son of Danehill supplying winners all over South Africa in recent days.
