Narina Trogon (pink cap) holds on in courageous fashion to win the Listed WSB Sledgehammer and give the Drakenstein Stud-based broodmare Beach Beauty her fourth stakes win of the season, achieved by two individual winners. (Candiese Lenferna Photography)
When the former champion racehorse Beach Beauty, a five-time Gr 1 winner, lost her first foal at Drakenstein Stud their looked to be an anxiety-ridden road ahead, but she has bounced back and every one of this Dynasty mare’s five runners to date have been stakes performers, with four of them being stakes winners.
On Sunday the Mike Miller-trained Narina Trogon scored Beach Beauty her fourth stakes win this season.
Two of these wins were by the now USA-based Beach Bomb, who was trained by Candice Bass-Robinson to do the notable double of the Gr 1 WSB Cape Fillies Guineas and the Gr 1 Cartier Paddock Stakes, This tiny Drakenstein Stud homebred Lancaster Bomber filly, smaller even than her small mother, had also won a Listed race as a juvenile.
Now, in KZN’s curtain-raiser season before the Champions Season starts, Beach Beauty’s four-year-old Silvano gelding Narina Trogo has also done a notable double, winning the Listed Kings Cup over 1600m at Hollywoodbets Greyville and the Listed WSB Sledgehammer over 1750m at Hollywoodbets Scottsville. He might be among the Hollywoodbets Durban July entries announced next Monday on 22 April.
On Sunday Narina Trogon showed he had inherited his mother’s courage. It was obviously not the plan to lead on him, but that is where he found himself and he had tgo be hard held. However, that did not stop him continually finding extra down the straight to fend off the challengers.
He converted 3/1 odds under Tristan Godden and beat Imilenzeyokududuma by 0,30 lengths with Navajo Nation next best.
Narina Trogon was also originally a Drakenstein Stud-homebred but was bought by the Miller yard at the BSA September Online Sale last year for R390,000.
That could turn out to be a value buy for the bay gelding’s new sole owner Morgan Govender as the Kings Cup and Sledgehammer carried total stakes of R150,000 and R200,000 respectively.
