Sizzling Hot. Beach Beauty (Sean Cormack) strides clear to win the Gr1 Paddock Stakes (Equine Edge)
The Dynasty mare Beach Beauty is surely one of the most popular horses ever to race in South Africa. This equine product of a well known story of emotion and love, and with stunning ability and the heart of a lioness to match, scored a sensational double when winning the 2014 R1 million Maine Chance Farms Gr1 Paddock Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday.
Trainer Dennis Drier and jockey Sean Cormack have had a summer to savour and the combination clocked up three legs of the Kenilworth jackpot as popular Cape commentator Rouvaun Smit screamed ‘and here comes Beach Beauty’ as the crowd roared and the Paddock Stakes field stormed into the final 200m of the prestigious feature.
Cormack and Drier have now got to sit down early next week and strategise where to go with two serious candidates in the top twenty on the J&B Met log. A lovely problem in any racing team’s book!
Beach Beauty jumped a popular favourite and was settled in midfield as Priceless Jewel made the pace. Into the home run Priceless Jewel was tackled by Gauteng visitor Espumanti as Cormack angled Beach Beauty out for her run.
In a matter of strides Beach Beauty put them all to bed and powered clear for her third career Gr1 win and beat a flying Fillies Guineas winner In The Fast Lane by 1,25 lengths.
Jet Aglow stayed on powerfully for third, just ahead of the game as gold Hammie’s Hooker.
Bred by Trevor Armitage Beach Beauty is by Dynasty out of the three-time winning Capture Him mare, Sun Coast. She was Dynasty’s second feature winner after Blaze Of Noon had won the Gr3 Politician Stakes a half hour earlier.
Beach Beauty has run 26 times for 14 wins and 9 places with her stakes tally now standing at a healthy R3 784 953.
And that is all rand denominated and earned right here in SA.
