Crown Towers soars

Jack Mitchell and Nick Jonsson, who combined with Bernard Kantor to win the July with Do It Again, may have struck gold a second time.

Certainly their decision to buy Crown Towers out of a Markus Jooste dispersal at Durbanville looks a good one.

The Australian-bred had some of those closest to him reaching for predictions.

Richard Fourie: “He is going to the top”.

And Jonathan Snaith: “He will be a serious horse” – after the powerful way he drew clear of his rivals on debut at Kenilworth.

The colt is bred in the purple, being by triple classic winner Camelot out of a Galileo mare who won five races.

Crown Towers cost Jooste A$280 000 (then almost R2.8 million) at the 2017 Melbourne Premier.

The present owners paid R1.7 million for the colt at the Central Route Trading sale in July.–