Candice Bass-Robinson has quickly found the raid-and-run winning recipe required for the Port Elizabeth smash ‘n grab and the Milnerton lady trainer celebrated a 100% win strike double at Fairview on Friday
Candice Bass-Robinson celebrated her first Gr1 success with Nightingale in the 2017 Majorca Stakes and she was back in the Majorca mix at Kenilworth on Saturday
Gaynor Rupert’s Drakenstein Stud dominated proceedings on the opening day of the L’Ormarins Queen’s Plate Festival on a glorious Cape summer’s afternoon at Kenilworth on Friday with a feature double
The What A Winter filly Clouds Unfold showed that her sparkling Cape Nursery performance last term to hammer the boys was the start of bigger things to come
One generally needs to wait until there’s at least one crop that has turned four in order to get a better view
Drakenstein based What A Winter also produced both winners of last year’s Cape Nurseries, with Magical Wonderland and Dutch Philip coming out on top
Former triple South African champion sire Western Winter’s name regularly cropped up in race results, as a sire, sire of sires, and broodmare sire
Hindsight is an exact science and trainers know best, but we have to wonder why the connections of the smashing What A Winter filly Magical Wonderland did not take their chances in the Diana Stakes
Dutch Philip was not punished but found the 1000m on the sharp side
And afternoon of excellence with the incredible Drakenstein Stud Farm team
The 2016-2017 season is fast drawing to a close in the Southern Hemisphere, and champion sires will soon be crowned
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
