The value of buying second-hand on the monthly BSA Online Sales was underscored at Hollywood bets Greyville on Sunday when the lightly raced and beautifully-bred 4yo Narina Trogon showed his class with a career first stakes score in the R150 000 Listed Kings Cup.
The winner was bred by Drakenstein Stud, who raced him in the Cape with Candice Bass-Robinson for the first part of his career, where he picked up 2 wins from 11 starts, including the 2023 non black-type Newlands Stakes.
Narina Trogon (Mathew Thackeray) runs them ragged in the Sunday feature (Pic – Candiese Lenferna)
Drakenstein disposed of Narina Trogon on the BSA September 2023 online sale, where he was purchased by Pound Bloodstock on behalf of Morgan Govender for R390 000.
After an unplaced run on the polytrack at his first start for the Miller team, his two subsequent turf efforts in KZN have seen a second and now a career peak victory on Sunday. And now trainer Michael Miller may now have a few plans up his sleeve for the relatively lightly raced 4yo!
In a fairly scrappy race, Passage Of Power led the Sundance Kid and Narino Trogon’s stablemate Winter Games early on.
Into the home run, Mathew Thackeray chose the traffic-free passage up the inside on the horse who runs in the Morgan Govender silks, who can easily be mistaken for those of Nic Jonsson. Thackeray unwound Narina Trogon, with the fancied pair of Celestial City and Imilenyenzeyokududuma not having the easiest of routes home.
Into the final 200m Narina Trogon (10-1) had a few lengths on them and he had 2,30 lengths to spare over Celestial City (3-1) in a time of 96,79 secs.
The tote favourite Imilenzeyokududuma (18-10) didn’t have it easy in running, but stayed on well for third, a further 0,15 lengths back.
The winner is a son of late multiple champion Silvano (Lomitas) out of the five-time winning champion Beach Beauty (Dynasty). This is the family of, amongst others, recently exported dual Gr1 winner Beach Bomb, Wild Coast, Rex Union and Amanzimtoti.
It ended up a very good day for the Michael Miller yard with Magical View and Ethereal View giving stable jockey Tristan Godden a nice double earlier in the afternoon.
The next KZN racemeeting is on Wednesday 27 March at Hollywoodbets Scottsville – first off at 12h35.
