Mia Moo (Piere Strydom) was the third of four Graded features for Sean Tarry at Turffontein on Championships Finale Day (Pic – JC Photos)
Having jockeys like Piere Strydom and Andrew Fortune entertaining us has brightened our day-to-day racing and it was pure poetry in motion watching the man they call ‘Striker’ guide Mia Moo home to a second feature success on the trot when winning the R350 000 TAB Gr2 Camellia Stakes at Turffontein on Saturday, writes the Sporting Post.
Sitting dead still, Piere Strydom brought a beautifully balanced Mia Moo (28-10) forward late in the 1160m race and the 4yo daughter of Vercingetorix went on powerfully to beat Gimme A Shot (16-1) by 2,10 lengths in a time of 67,60 secs for the 1160m.
This was the rampant Sean Tarry’s third Graded winner of the afternoon and he later made it four.
Earlier his pair of fillies One Fine Winter (What A Winter) and Green Diaomnd (Gimmethegreenlight) had both romped home in the Gr 3 TAB Pretty Polly Stakes over 1100m and the Gr 3 TAB Proteas Stakes over 1100m under Richard Fourie and Craig Zackey respectively
Later, his filly Let’s Go Now (Gimmethegreenlight) won the Gr 2 TAB Colorado King Stakes over 2000m under Richard Fourie.
A R300 000 National Yearling Sale purchase, Mia Moo, who races in the interests of the Arundels Itssa IT & Business Solutions and World Sports Betting, took her win tally to 5 with 8 places from her 15 starts. She has earned R707 075.
Bred by Klawervlei, Mia Moo is a daughter of Vercingetorix (Silvano) out of the four-time winning Captain Al mare, Leeward.
The R500 000 carryover into the Pick 6 surpassed the projected target of R1,5 million, reaching a net R1 721 914. We just wish the powers-that-be would would learn to market this aspect with more enthusiasm – particularly in an environment of blank days on the local roster.
Finding out about the carryover late on a Friday afternoon is not assisting the media spread the word.
