La Landonne clinches a double for Justin Snaith and it sees Snaith Racing’s career earnings surpassing the R400 million mark. (Pauline Herman Photography)
When JP van der Merwe passed the post first in the fifth race at Fairview today (Friday) on Legislate filly La Landonne it took Snaith racing past R400 million in career stakes earnings.
The Justin Snaith-trained and Greg and Gina Bortz-owned filly earned over R55,000 for the victory and Snaith had earlier won a Maiden with Homing Pigeon (Hawwaam), ridden by Craig Zackey, so the amount of R67,748 needed at the beginning of the day for Snaith Racing to surpass R400 million had been accumulated.
It is probably a record for local earnings, although Mike de Kock is almost certainly the highest earning trainer in SA history if overseas earnings count, considering he earned US$6.3 million at a memorable Dubai World Cup meeting in 2008 and that was just one of many big meetings abroad for him.
There was some good racing at Fairview today.
The highlight was the Listed Bryanston Auctioneers East Cape Guineas, which proved to be another doddle for the Alan Greeff-trained Richard Fourie-ridden Anotherdanceforme (Master Of My Fate), who had won the Listed Breeders Guineas for fillies three weeks earlier.
Her stablemate Augusta Rosso (Erik The Red) finished second in both events.
The Listed Hollywoodbets Supports ECHU East Cape Sprint Cup over 1200m saw the Kelly Mitchley-trained One World gelding Anuschka’s World getting up by 0,25 lengths under Muzi Yeni from Roman Agent with the favourite Fairy Night well beaten in third. There was a bit of bumping between the first two and Anuschka’s World also carried Roman Agent inward slightly and bumped him just before the line, so a race review was called by both the stipes and Roman Agent’s jockey Wayne Agrella, but no further action was taken.
That win clinched a double on the day for Yeni and Mitchley.
Justin Snaith was the only other double scorer at the meeting, which was generally a favourable one for punters.
