Turf Talk Newsletter – 09 December, 2024

Fatal Flaw Proved She Has It All

Fatal Flaw completes a comfortable start to finish victory to give Piere “Striker” Strydom victory in the one big race in South Africa that was missing from his CV. (Picture: Wayne Marks)

When you have a horse who can relax in front and dictate and then kick away from them at the top of the straight then gatespeed becomes the key to success and the Brett and James Crawford-trained Fatal Flaw possesses the aforementioned assets plus the key of gatespeed and this allowed her to comfortably convert favouritism in the Gr 1 WSB Cape Fillies Guineas at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday.

Having the legendary Piere “Striker” Strydom aboard was a bonus.

Striker said, “People often ask me, ‘How do you rate a good horse?’ and I reply, ‘It is all about a good temperament, gatespeed, natural speed where they travel well, and then a kick, 90% of the good ones are like that.”

Fatal Flaw has all those assets and Striker used them well.

However, he added, “The good thing is she went to the front and relaxed. The bad thing is she hadn’t run there before (it was her first time around a left hand turn) and she was green on the corner, she didn’t handle it well. I was already a little bit wide coming into the straight as she was hanging out, but at least that helped me make up my mind that I was going to go to the outside. They often go out at Kenilworth when it rains and there has been some rain, and the previous race they had gone to the outside. I thought why fight the horse to be on the inside when they’ve just won on the outside.”

Earlier Piere had used the New Predator’s filly’s gatespeed to get over from a wide draw and he then took his time to get on to the rail in front, knowing none of the principles would want to lead.

Two of the main contenders, Beware The Bomb and Symphony In White, began overracing on the inside as they waited for Fatal Flaw to get to the front and that might have been costly for them.

Fatal Flaw then dictated at no more than a steady pace, but she was beautifully relaxed, despite being green.

It was basically race over from a long way out, because Fatal Flaw possesses a terrific kick coupled with a resolute finish made very effective by a big action.

She duly kicked into a four length lead at the top of the straight and then just stayed on resolutely in the last 400m.

Strydom kept the stick away until the last 100m and then gave her four rhythmical backhanders to keep her mind on the job.

She easily fended off the main challenger, Scarlet Macaw, to win by two lengths.

It was the one big race in the country missing from Striker’s CV, so was a satisfying moment for the legendary jockey.

Piere elaborated about Fatal Flaw, “She’s not very tall for me, she’s almost on the short side. But she’s quite a strongly built filly, she’s solid, and she’s very balanced and I love her action. So you feel comfortable, she’s an easy ride.”

The Gr 1 Cartier Paddock Stakes over 1800m might be an option for Fatal Flaw’s next race and Piere believes she will see out the trip.

He said, “I think the way she won on Saturday, she wasn’t slowing down.”

He said about just giving her a couple of backhanders at the end, “You know when a horse is doing its best, I don’t understand why some guys want to beat them up. They come out of a race like Saturday better mentally, they improve, because they realise it’s not something they going to do and feel the stick.”

Halcyon Opening Day For The Crawfords As Official Partners

Brett and James Crawford Celebrate a Gr 1 (and a Gr 2) victory on their first day as an official training partnership. (Picture: Wayne Marks)

Brett Crawford has been a top, multiple Gr 1-winning trainer for a long time, but his racing operation has gone to a new level since his son James began managing their Randjesfontein-based satelllite yard and this included winning two Hollywoodbets Durban Julys.

It was thus fitting that on the very first day that their training partnership becoming official i.e. they now operate under the name Brett and James Crawford, they landed a Gr 1 and a Gr 2, with Fatal Flaw winning the Gr 1 WSB Cape Fillies Guineas and Oriental Charm winning the Gr 2 WSB Green Point Stakes.

This is likely a South African first.

Brett was full of praise for James after Fatal Flaw’s Cape Fillies Guineas win.

He said, “She was exceptionally well prepared by James (out of Randjesfontein) and traveled down exceptionally well last Monday. It is now a partnership and a first Group 1 winner for the partnership and a first Group 1 for James in his own name, so it was very special.”

He added, “Piere gave the filly a great ride from that wide draw.”

She was not stopping at the line and her dam Alinga (Rock Of Gibraltar) won a Listed race over 2000m, while her sire New Predator is by the Epsom Derby winner New Approach.

So the Gr 1 Cartier Paddock Stakes over 1800m seems the next logical step, but Brett said he would discuss it with the owners Warne Rippon and Arun Chadha of the ASSM Syndicate.

Meanwhile, the yard’s Hollywoodbets Durban July winner Oriental Charm looks capable of stepping up into a genuine Gr 1 weight for age contender after his dominating pillar to post win in the Gr 1 WSB Green Point Stakes, in which he beat last season’s Gr 1 L’Ormarins Kings Plate third-placed Royal Aussie by a length.

Brett said, “I was quite impressed with him on Saturday. He was obviously stepping up to level weights for the first time and I thought it was a very good win. He can only but improve from that run, so it looks like he’s making good progression as he gets older.”

Oriental Charm will now go the traditional route of a top horse, the Gr 1 wfa L’Ormarins King’s Plate and the Gr 1 wfa WSB Met.

He is in fact suddenly the favourite for the Met at 33/10.

That wouldn’t have seemed likely after his July win as he was 5kg better off than weight for age with See It Again in the July and only beat him by 1,80 lengths and that is not to mention that the latter was hampered too.

The only disappointment for the yard on Saturday was the run of Mon Petit Cherie (Rafeef), who was third favourite for the Cape Fillies Guineas.

Brett said, “She was a bit slow out and then she started pulling in the race and travelled very hard with Richard, which is unusual for her. She’s normally relaxed but on this occasion she never settled at all. She then just stayed on in the stretch, so it was a bit disappointing, but I think she’s better than that effort for sure.”

Mon Petit Cherie is by Rafeef out of a a Galileo mare so the Paddock Stakes would have seemed an option, but Brett was not sure of her next target.

Warne Rippon and Arun Chadha's First Gr 1 Win Under ASSM Banner

Warne Rippon and his brother with the WSB Cape Fillies Guineas trophy (Picture: Wayne Marks)

Fatal Flaw is not the first Gr 1 winner Warne Rippon and Arun Chadha have had as racing partners, but it is the first Gr 1 win the business partners have had under the banner of their racing syndicate, the ASSM Syndicate, which they formed in about May 2021.

Warne has previously had massive individual success with the wonder filly Sun Classique, who is the highest earning SA-bred filly in history having won numerous Gr 1s in South Africa and in Dubai. Sun Classique’s first Gr 1 win was in fact in the Cape Fillies Guineas and she went on to win the Gr 1 Majorca Stakes, the Gr 1 Woolavington 2000 and the Gr 1 Dubai Sheema Classic over 2400m.

Warne and Arun’s partnership in the Mike de Kock-trained Australian-bred Snitzel colt Heavenly Blue yielded victory in the Gr 1 SA Classic and Heavenly Blue has also become a successful sire.

However, his success became before the formation of their ASSM Syndicate, which stands for Allied Steelrode Stretcher Material.

The ASSM syndicate has owned such good horses as Gr 2 winners Catch Twentytwo and Big Burn and stakes winners River Queraress and Three Rocks as well as the promising but ultimately disappointing Shoemaker and also hardknocking sorts like White Pearl, Sugar Mountain and Wolf Mountain.

However, Fatal Flaw is the best horse they have had to date.

They bought her for R210,000 at the BSA National Yearling Sale.

Fittingly this New Predator filly is out of a mare whom Warne used to race.

Warne part-owned Sun Classique together with Lionel Cohen and after her succcess with Mike Bass in South Africa and Mike de Kock in Dubai, Mike Bass bought a Rock Of Gibraltar filly for Warne and Lionel called Alinga.

Alinga won five races in 14 starts, including a Listed race.

She was initially owned in the breeding shed by Chris Gerber and produced a number of winners, including seven time winner Alingalonga.

Chris passed away in 2018 and Laurence Wernars bought Alinga and sent her to his Australian-bred New Approach stallion New Predator.

The result was Fatal Flaw who not only gave Warne and Arun their first Gr 1 winner under the banner of the ASSM Syndicate, but it was also a first Gr 1 winner for the late New Predator, a first Cape Fillies Guineas win for Piere Strydom and also a first Gr 1 win for Brett and James Crawford as official training partners.

Warne has realised over the years how hard it is to win Gr 1s so there were tears of emotion on Saturday and he quipped in the winning interview, “I don’t think there is enough money in the country to buy this filly.”

She looks to have a stellar career ahead of her.

Striker Rates Quid Pro Quo The Better Of Two Top Fillies

Quid Pro Quo winning the Betway Dingaans (JC Photos)

Piere Strydom is seemingly further away from retirement than he has been since his comeback from an eye issue two-and-a-half years ago as he is suddenly associated with a plethora of top horses including Fatal Flaw, Quid Pro Quo, See It Again and Dyce.

Quid Pro Quo and Fatal Flaw are probably the two best fillies in the country and are unlikely to clash until the Champions Season in KZN, but as Piere is retained by Fatal Flaw’s owners he would have to ride her if there was a clash (presuming he will keep the Quid Pro Quo ride).

However, when it was put to him that Fatal Flaw might even be able to beat Quid Pro Quo his reply was swift and adamant, “No. No, no!”

He continued, “Quid Pro Quo has beaten her twice before at Hollywoodbets Greyville and I think Quid Pro Quo is better on a course with a longer run in and even though Fatal Flaw won on Saturday the way Quid Pro Quo won the Dingaans after a four month break was super impressive.”

When asked whether it could be published that he rated Quid Pro Quo better, he replied, “Yes, my owners must know the truth!”

Piere agreed that Quid Pro Quo was “a freak” and he decribed the kick she gave as “unbelievable.”

He said his danger Greaterix was four lengths in front of him entering the straight in the Betway Dingaans and when he asked her to give him a feel of what she still had he knew immediately he was fine and she would do it.

She duly required just a single backhander to reach the line 2,50 lengths clear of the runner up Fire Attack and she was five lengths clear of Greaterix.

That is not to say he is unimpressed with Fatal Flaw, whom he said had all the credentials of a good horse i.e. a good temperament, gatespeed, a good cruising speed that she was able to maintain at a relaxed tempo, and a fine kick.

Quid pro Quo is set to go for the Wilgerbosdrift Triple Tiara, while Fatal Flaw’s targets look to be in Cape Town.

R50k Scarlet Macaw Won't Be Ignored Again

The most amazing betting odds about a Gr 1 runner in recent times must be what bookmakers offered about the Candice Bass-Robinson-trained WSB Cape Fillies Guines runner up Scarlet Macaw.

The 20/1 opening price seemed generous, but on race day she had drifted out to 67/1, which was simply ridiculousconsidering the form of the race, although it was welcomed by dedicated form studiers.

Candice commenting on it today (Monday) said, “I wasn’t worried about the odds. Nobody gave her any hope whatsoever, why, I don’t know.”

She confirmed she had noticed the piece of form that had Scarlet Macaw finishing in front of the fancied Beware The Bomb on paper and added, “Yes but people do not notice that, they just see a cheapy little Horizon filly, they don’t look properly.”

The Hemel ‘N Aarde Stud-bred filly had faced the strongly fancied Beware The Bomb two runs before the Cape Fillies Guineas over 1400m and had lost to her by only a length and in the Cape Fillies Guines Scarlet Macaw was 1,5kg better off.

Furthermore, Scarlet Macaw had been very impressive in her next start when quickening superbly and storming past a field of older horses to win a 1400m handicap as she liked, albeit off a merit rating of only 88.

The latter race had taken place on the same day as the Cape Fillies Guineas’ biggest pointer, the Gr 3 Western Cape Fillies Championship, and she had only run a time 0,11 seconds slower than the winner of that race, Mon Petit Cherie, although she was carrying 2kg less than the runners in that race.

However, one of the main factors that made the price hard to believe was her being an inmate of the Candice Bass-Robinson yard, a yard know for their prowess in peaking horses at the right time and who have been delivering Gr 1 winners for decades.

Scarlet Macaw had a perfect trip from draw two, finding cover in a handy position under Kabelo Matsunyane and she then continully found more in the straight to emerge as the only threat to Fatal Flaw in the last 200m.

She was eventually beaten two lengths.

The yard elect, Symphony In White, overraced early and had a bumping match with Beware The Bomb as they waited for Fatal Flaw to come accross ino the lead, so she did well to finish fourth.

Candice selected Scarlet Macaw at the BSA Cape Yearling Sale last year and landed her for a mere R50,000.

She said she had had substance and that had been the chief attractive point.

The Bass yard did train her sire Horizon and also her damsire Tobe Or Nottobe.

Candice recalled the Dynasty colt Horizon to have been unlucky not to have won the July in 2017, when finishing a 1,2 length sixth to stablemate Marinaresco.

He had earlier won the Gr 3 Politician Stakes and finished third in the Gr 1 Daily News 2000, but after that season he had had some unsoundness issues.

Candice is not sure whether Scarlet Macaw will get further than a mile, because although her sire should bring some stamina her dam was a sprinter.

He said she had already exceeded expectations, so she was in no rush to map out her future.

She is owned by the Bass’s Centenary Syndicate and is giving a lot of people a lot of fun.

Cosmic Speed Set For A Good Season

Cosmic Speed won his seasonal reappearance in impressive style at Turffontein Standside on Saturday (JC Photos)

The Sean Tarry-trained Cosmic Speed made his awaited seasonal reappearance over 1160m at Turffontein Standside and fended off the decent Gr 3 winner Cymric to win by a cosy 0,60 lengths, although he did have the advantage of Trent Mayhew’s 1,5kg claim.

Tarry said 1200m to 1400m was the best trip for the three-year-old Querari gelding at present and when asked whether the Gr 1 Golden Horse Sprint would be his chief aim, he replied, “You know me, that meeting is normally something I focus on, so there is a reasonable possibility.”

He said about Saturday’s win, “He was idling behind them and quickened up like a good horse, he did what he needed to do. It was a good win.”

Tarry is known as The King Of Hollywoodbets Scottsville, having won a record 19 Gr 1s there.

Lucky Lad won the Golden Horse for him last season, but will be racing in Cape Town in the Gr 1 wfa Cape Flying Championship this season. He might stil be able to defend his Golden Horse title, but if he wins or goes close in the weight for age (wfa) Cape Flying or the wfa Gr 1 Jonsson Workwear Computaform Sprint he might be in for a further merit rating hike from his current 125, while he won the Golden Horse last season off a 121.

Querari gelding Cosmic Speed is currently merit rated 116 and might end up as Tarry’s chief Golden Horse runner this season.

He has already proved he likes Hollywoodbets Scottsville as he finished a 0,75 length second to stablemate Proceed in the Gr 1 Gold Medallion last season.

The latter is yet to be seen this season.

Cape Racing Sales Announces 2025 Sales Calendar

Cape Racing Sales is excited to announce the first of the 2025 sales, set to kick off with the Summer Sale at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Thursday, 23 January 2025, at 12:00 PM. The Summer Sale will be held in the Racing Pavilion area at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth, with the live auction commencing promptly at 12:00 PM.

This exclusive sale will feature 95 carefully selected lots, showcasing top-tier bloodstock. We are thrilled to confirm the catalogue is available online www.caperacingsales.co.za and the printed catalogue will be available in the coming weeks, offering buyers a chance to purchase some of the finest horses on the market.

Cape Racing Sales looks forward to hosting this exciting event and invites all buyers to join us for an unforgettable experience at one of the most beautiful times of the year in the Cape. The Summer Sale provides a unique opportunity to purchase high-quality bloodstock amidst a week of action-packed events leading up to the highly anticipated WSB Cape Town Met race day, held at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday, 25 January 2025.

Cape Racing Executive: Racing and Bloodstock, Justin Vermaak “At Cape Racing Sales, we are passionate about bringing together the best in racing and bloodstock. The 2025 sales season represents an exciting opportunity to connect buyers with exceptional horses that have the potential to become future champions. With the unwavering support of our breeders and the vibrant energy of the Cape, we are committed to delivering a world-class experience for all involved, ensuring the continued growth and success of our racing community.”

Following the Summer Sale, Cape Racing Sales will host the prestigious Premier Sale, scheduled for 14 and 15 March 2025 at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth. After having received overwhelming support from breeders this auction has become a two day sale. The quality within the select day of the sale is sure to shock the thoroughbred industry in South Africa.

The final sale of 2025 will take place on 26 October 2025. This sale will continue the popular format of a combination of breeze-up and unbroken 2-year-olds, offering the perfect opportunity to purchase up-and-coming stars.

Cape Racing Sales remains committed to providing buyers with access to top-tier horses in an exciting and vibrant environment. We look forward to welcoming all participants to these exceptional events in 2025.

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Mocha Blend Is A Filly To Follow

The Wilgerbosdrift and Mauritzfontein homebred Ideal World filly Mocha Blend powers home under Sean Veale (Candiese Lenferna Photography)

Andrew Harrison (Gold Circle)

Mocha Blend only won a maiden at a hot and humid Hollywoodbets Scottsville yesterday but she won with authority. Frank Robinson’s filly caught the eye when running on late behind Meritorious on debut and although the latter did not run up to expectations at her next start with excuses, Mocha Blend is a filly with quality about her.

She stood out head and shoulders above her rivals in the paddock and won as she liked with Sean Veale commenting post-race that if he had not found some trouble in a muddling pace, she would have won a lot more comfortably than the four and a bit lengths would suggest. Mocha Blend took the corner with Veale’s hands in the air as if he was driving a harness chariot, a sure sign that his mount was cruising. She is definitely a filly worth following over ground.

Gary Rich is one of the country’s most under rated trainers as he shows week in and week out what he can do with the limited stock that he has to work with.

But he has his fair share of winners with what he’s got and Flying Cool got over the line late under stable stalwart and regular pilot Cole Dicken to win the fourth. With the field all bunching on the outside rail in the straight, Dicken found himself hunting galloping room but once through a gap, Flying Cool responded gamely.

Second-placed Captain Oliver was only having his second start but Frikkie Greyling looks to have a promising stayer in the good looking son of Potala Palace who is sure to come on from this effort as the pace was never genuine.

Between a dearth of two-year-olds in KZN and many trainers preferring to wait until later in the season for their charges to make their debuts, the operator was left in a conundrum when two horses were scratched from the first leaving just four runners.

The question then became, do they let four runners from two stables contest for the R111 000k stake, or abandon the race? The operator decided to abandon given the value of the stake and the fact that tote turnover on the race would almost certainly be negligible. For the owners it will have been a disappointment but in the greater scheme of things given the precarious state of racing in KZN, it was probably the prudent thing to do.

But favourite punters got off to a winning start when Dressedtothenines made most of the running under young apprentice Mxolisi Mbuto who kept plugging away to win comfortably with fellow apprentice Sifiso Bungane chasing him home aboard Wings Of Josephine with the balance of the field a long way behind.

Safe And Sound is a filly on the up with Kabelo Matsunyane having worked her out, and giving valuable feedback to Duncan Howells. Not the easiest to settle, Matsunyane made the pace in her last two and the daughter of Querari responded with back-to-back victories.

Impatient owners are always a millstone around a trainer’s neck. Granted, there are some trainers that string owners along to keep the stable money coming in but mostly it is a case of patience.

The original owners lost patience with Stars In Heaven but on the advice of Gareth van Zyl, he was a buy-back on an online sale. The hot son of Danon Platina has repaid twice with back-to-back wins as he outgunned stable companion and favourite Gimmethegoodlife in the fifth.

Emerald Green was not one that you could hang your hat on given her recent form but it all panned out in her favour with a messy start playing in her hands in the seventh. Chase Maujean and Louis Goosen go back a long way and Maujean pressed all the right buttons as the daughter of Gimmethegreenlight quickened away from her rivals with Happy Analia, always up with the pace, no match as her inexperience apprentice allowed her to wander under pressure.

The South African Jockey Academy held their year-end awards ceremony on Friday but there is only so much that you can teach, the rest goes to experience.

Piere Strydom gave a master class on Fatal Flaw in the WSB Cape Fillies Guineas on Saturday but as accomplished veteran Kevin Shea pointed out in a recent podcast, the rest of the country does not have to put up with a host of inexperienced apprentices.

Apprentice Damyan Pillay rode an excellent race on Hope Is Power in the last, failing by the narrowest of margins, but the experience of Matsunyane counted on Mar Del Plata who scraped home with Hope And Power looking for some assistance.

Zena Rose And Brass Bell Can Score Howells A Double

Brass Bell returned to KZN this year after a stint in the East Cape (Candiese Lenferna Photography)

Jack Milner

Racing is on the Polytrack at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Tuesday and there could be a couple of decent bets in the offing.

There was once a good bit of advice offered by a bookmaker that one should only take odds-on about a horse if it is a good a reliable performer and not because it looks to be the best horse in a very weak field.

Overall, that is sage advice but there are times where once just needs to bite the bullet and go for it and that looks to be the case with Zena Rose in Race 2, a Conditional Maiden for fillies and mares over 1400m.

A quick glance at the form of this Duncan Howells-trained three-year-old daughter of Horizon might give one cause for concern as she has raced six time for two places. However, closer scrutiny of her runs reveals a lot more.

Her first two runs over 1200m at HWB Scottsville were poor but she kept giving her opposition start. Then she did the same in her next outing but that was over 1400m, and she did make up ground before staying on to finish fifth, just 2.25 lengths behind Blind Speed.

Her next run was over 1600m on the Greyville turf where she again lost ground at the start but produced at the fastest final 400m to run a 2.45-length third to Greenlitealltheway. Howells tried her in blinkers the next time and this time she got out like a bullet but tore off to the front and ran out of steam.

Last time though, with the blinkers now removed she bounced back with a good third behind decent types Happy Fortune and subsequent easy winner Woza Nawe. With the speed she shows she looks well suited to the Polytrack.

The one concern is that as this is a Conditional Maiden, she will give weight to her seven rivals. But she appears head-and-shoulders above horses such as five-year-old maiden Head Girl and Fantasy League and from No 1 draw she has everything going for her.

Kabelo Matsunyane rode her last time and he is back in the irons once again.

Jack Milner’s selections

Race 1: 7 Zalta Star, 6 La Maddalena, 9 Precious Beauty, 1 Sweet Reunion

Race 2: 1 Zena Rose, 4 Head Girl, 6 Fantasy League, 2 Dynasty’s Last

Race 3: 3 Ayuwi Yuwi, 4 Gaelic Dancer, 5 War Empress, 6 Rugger Lover

Race 4: 6 Uzwano, 7 Chili Bomb, 2 Rollo The Viking, 3 Vencedor

Race 5: 2 National Award, 5 Force De Dieu, 1 Fish Eagle, 6 Bugalugs

Race 6: 2 Off Limits, 1 Linganomore, 4 Red Knot, 6 Lady Is A Champ

Race 7: 3 Allaroundtheworld, 2 Fine Admiral, 7 Send Me, 5 Duke Of Africa

Race 8: 8 Brass Bell, 2 Porfirio, 3 Roy Taking Off, 6 Rafiki

BEST BET

Race 2 No 1 Zena Rose

VALUE BET

Race 7 No 3 Allaroundtheworld

BEST SWINGER

Race 2 1×4

BIPOT

R81

Leg 1: 6, 7, 9

Leg 2: 1

Leg 3: 3, 4, 5

Leg 4: 6

Leg 5: 1, 2, 5

Leg 6: 1, 2, 4

PLACE ACCUMULATOR

R216

Leg 1: 1

Leg 2: 3, 4, 5

Leg 3: 6

Leg 4: 1, 2, 5

Leg 5: 1, 2, 4

Leg 6: 2, 3

Leg 7: 2, 3, 6, 8

PICK 6

R1200

Leg 1: 3, 4, 5, 6

Leg 2: 6

Leg 3: 1, 2, 5, 6

Leg 4: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7

Leg 5: 2, 3, 7

Leg 6: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8

JACKPOT 1

R60

Leg 1: 6

Leg 2: 1, 2, 5, 6

Leg 3: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7

Leg 4: 2, 3, 7

JACKPOT 2

R300

Leg 1: 1, 2, 5, 6

Leg 2: 1, 2, 4, 6, 7

Leg 3: 2, 3, 7

Leg 4: 2, 3, 4, 6, 8

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