Picture: Gimme A Nother chases Saffron Moon home at Tampa bay on Saturday. (Image: Tom Keyser)
At Tampa Bay Downs in the USA on Saturday, the former De Kock-trained Mauritzfontein homebred Gimmethegreenlight filly Gimme A Another lost her unbeaten career record, but did not lose anything in defeat.
It was the champion dual Gr 1-winner’s eighth career start and her first outing for eleven months and she finished an eyecatching 1,75 length second under Irad Ortiz.
In the Gr 2 Hillsborough Stakes over a mile and an eighth it could be said that having raced at Turffontein Standside with its long straight for her last six starts she simply found the Tampa Bay Downs track to tight.
Gimme A Nother was toward the back of the nine horse field and showed her usual exhilarating turn of foot, but could not fetch the winner Saffron Moon, who had stolen a march at the top of the short straight while Gimme A Nother was still stuck behind horses.
Trainer Graham Motion has been shown to get an effective tactics change out of Beach Bomb, who was a hold up horse in South Africa but who led from start to finish last time out.
He might have to do the same with Gimme A Nother with the Breeders Cup on the tight Del Mar course in mind.
In Australia on Saturday South Africans were prominent in the big Guineas meeting at Randwick.
Zac Lloyd rode the Gr 1 Randwick Guineas winner Linebacker, who is trained by John O’ Shea and Tom Charlton, beating the Godolphin-owned favourite Broadsiding by half-a-length.
At the same meeting big Johannesburg-based owner Larry Nestadt had shares in a Gr 1 winner and a Listed winner. The Gai Waterhouse and Adrian Bott-trained imported horse Royal Patronage (Wootton Bassett) won the Gr 1 Canterbury Stakes over 1300m. The imported Waterhouse and Bott-trained Mastercraftsman mare Alalcance won a Listed event over 2000m.
At Sha Tin in Hong Kong on Sunday Lyle Hewitson had a welcome double as well as two seconds, while Luke Ferraris had a winner too. Ferraris is now on 30 wins for the season and Hewitson is on 15.
UK-based former South African trainer Dylan Cunha had his first winner over the jumps in the UK last Friday and on the same day he had his first winner in Dubai. Stable soldier Silver Sword won the AED 250,000 Burj Aziz Handicap over 1600m at Meydan. Cunha has a 50% record over jumps as his second ever runner in this code was Mahons Glory, who was bought out of Patrick Neville’s yard in February and won a Novices Limited handicap Chase over two miles and six and a half furlongs on his debut for the yard at Leicester.
