Trent Mayhew salutes as his 50th win is in a Gr 3 on the promising filly Hazy Dazy (Candiese Lenferna Photography)
The Corne Spies-trained Act Of War filly Hazy Dazy had always looked a highly progressive sort and those who forgave her for her previous start, when inconceivably running unplaced in a MR84 handicap for fillies and mares over 2000m, reaped the rewards as she got back on to the tracks of an upwardly mobile career by winning the Gr 3 R500 000 Ducat Africa Fillies Mile at Turffontein on Saturday in eyecatching fashion.
Spies’ loyalty to the young rider Trent Mayhew also paid dividends and he gained his 50th career win in the process, while Hazy Dazy made it four wins from six starts and the onlt time she has missed the frame was in the aforementioned last start, a race in which lightning delayed the start and that might have been part of the explanati0on.
Mayhew produced the Breedon Stud Close Corporation-bred daughter of Act Of War (Dynasty) with a sustained effort at 17-2 to resist a late challenge from 100-1 outsider Charge It, a raider from the Alyson Wright yard, by a length in a time of 101,73 secs.
The 66-1 Merryweather capped a healthy trifecta, a further 1,50 lengths back in third.
Out of the once winning Eightfold Path mare Rabbedoe, the winner looks a decent sort in the making.
Only 5411,41 tickets survived the third leg of the Pick 6, which ultultimately paid R 1179299.00.
Hazy Dazy was purchased on a BSA December online auction for R37,500.
She is owned by Mr D Dasrath & Mrs C Dasrath, Messrs R P Macnab, S Poriazis, Vikash Sobaren, X Spies & D Vayapuri.
