Sean Tarry had decided to disperse all the horses in his yard that he himself owns.
The horses will be dispersed on a horses-in-training sale in September and Tarry said those buyers who would like to keep their horses with him would be most welcome to do so.
This dispersal will include the Time Thief filly Time Fo Orchids, who is at the top of the log for the R7,5 million CTS Gold Rush race to be run on WSB Met day in January next year.
This will attract the interest of the 16 “Gold Rush Prospectors” who hold a ticket into the race.
It would be no surprise if this filly stayed in Tarry’s yard after being pucrhased, because he has an incredible record in sales races.
Each prospector is allowed one horse to represent them in the Gold Rush race.
Those who don’t own a good enough horse will be either attempting to make deals with the ticketless who do have a good eligible horse, or they will be looking to buy an eligible horse.
A horse has to have been on the CTS Premier Yearling Sale of 2021 to be eligible.
Time Fo Orchids was sold at the 2021 CPYS for R150,000 and is owned outright by Tarry.
She is out of Australian-bred Dubawi mare Amber Orchid, who Tarry himself trained to six wins, including the Grade 3 Jacaranda Handicap over 1800m and she was also third in the Grade 2 Gerald Rosenberg over 2000m.
Time Fo Orchids has shown a lot of promise.
She won on debut over 1100m at the Vaal and the second, third and fourth-placed horses in that race all won next time out.
She then came out and ran on strongly from way back in the running for an eyecatching one length third in the Grade 2 Zulu Kingdom Explorer Golden Slipper over 1400m at Hollywoodbets Greyville after being dropped out from a wide draw.
This saw her starting 5/1 second favourite for the Grade 1 Thekwini Stakes over 1600m at the same venue.
She did not have the best of breaks from a good draw of three and was shuffled backward in the running. However, she turned for home within striking distance and showed a fine turn of foot, which carried her into the front-line.
However, she became a bit short of room and lost momentum.
She finished a 4,80 length seventh.
The 1600m trip of the Gold Rush should be ideal by the time of the race.
Tarry has had many big money successes in Sales race events.
Examples that spring to mind are him winning the R2 million Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes over 1400m at Kenilworth with Zambezi River (Trippi) in 2014; the R2.5 million Lanzerac Ready To Run Stakes over 1400m with Safe Harbour (Elusive Fort) in 2016, the R2.5 million CTS Ready To Run Stakes over 1400m at Kenilworth with Cirillo (Pomodoro) in 2018; the R5 million CTS 1200 at Kenilworth with Cirillo in 2019; Tarry also won the R2.5 million Emperor’s Palace Ready To Run Cup over 1400m at Turffontein with Big Bear (Await The Dawn) in 2017; he in fact won that race three years in a row, Vi Va Pi Pa (Visionaire) winning the R500,000 renewal in 2018 and Spiritofthegroove (Visionaire) winning the R1 million renewal in 2019.
There are sure to be one or two other sales races he has won too.
Tarry said the incentives put up by Cape Racing were excellent initiatives and the Stakes increases were luring too.
He had initially believed he would be “charging” at relevant Cape races.
However, he has had a mind change and said, “I am not an oil baron and the numbers I own are not sustainable, so I will have the sale and then regroup and might be able to still focus on Cape Town from there (especially if some of the dispersed horses stay in his yard)”
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