Brave Move – here I come
WATCH out Oh Susanna and Snowdance – here I come.
Brave Move served notice that she is going to be a force to reckon with in next season’s top fillies races by making it six off the reel in the Final Fling Stakes at Kenilworth on Saturday.
The Armitage-bred Horse Chestnut filly didn’t just win either.
She overcame early interference as if it was nothing more than a minor inconvenience, swept to the front a furlong out and after one tap with the whip she literally coasted home.
“She deserves a rest now but she will be back to take on the big guns next season,” said a justifiably well-satisfied Adam Marcus.
Paddock Stakes
“She will have a couple of prep runs before the obvious races like the Paddock Stakes and the Majorca.
“She has improved since her last win in the Ladies Mile and the way she finished off after being forced wide was sensational.
“Hats off to Aldo for making the decision to sit up handy and take the race by the scruff of the neck.”
This was the first Final Fling for Domeyer as well as for the evens favourite’s trainer and he reported: “Sometimes horses have a chink in their armour but this one doesn’t seem to. She helps you with everything – she settles after coming out quickly, she has a good turn of foot and I can’t fault her.”
It really wasn’t Joey Ramsden’s day and, while Fresnaye did her best to put up a fight, she was totally outpointed.
Like Attenborough in the Mercury Sprint, she had to put up with a gallant second place.
Domeyer has had his best season numerically and he was completing a four-timer to take his tally to 132.
He also landed his first Champagne, getting up on the line on Freedom Charter for his boss Candice BassRobinson to shade last year’s winner Nordic Breeze.
Goodtime Gal returned to something like her best to take third and will race on as a six-year-old.
“She had to check and otherwise she might just have won,” said owner Juan van Heerden.
Domeyer, incidentally, reckons that the first of his quartet, the R3.6 million Var daughter of 2007 Cape Fillies Guineas winner Captain’s Lover, is one to note.
Varsity Lover
Varsity Lover started 15-10 favourite to make a winning debut in the TAB Telebet Maiden Juvenile and she led inside the final furlong to score with little more pressure than hands and heels. “I was impressed,” said her jockey. “I had slight reservations beforehand because her gallops were a bit green and this was really too sharp for her.
“I feel we need to give her one more sprint and then we can go where we want with her.”
Sandile Mbhele, riding for the first time without his 4kg claim, showed he has what it takes to continue his winning streak by making all on the Marcus-trained Prince Alfred in the Supabets Handicap.
“If you’ve got the talent and the ability it doesn’t matter about the claim,” said Academy riding master Terrance Welch who should know.