Major Master sweeps to the front in impressive style (Picture: Wayne Marks)
Candice Bass, who recently reached a milestone of 900 career wins, sent out a hattrick at Hollywoodbets Durbanville’s last meeting of this calendar year last Wednesday and all of them were ridden by Aldo Domeyer.
The hattrick came in successive races, three, four and five and the most impressive of the winners was the middle leg winner, Major Master.
This Master Of My Fate gelding has always been well regarded and he showed why today. He was dropped out from a wide draw in the small six horse handicap field over 1400m, but late in the race he swept past the opposition in devastating style to win by a 0,40 lengths despite carrying 64kg and giving the runner up Pomp It Up 5,5kg.
Candice and Aldo’s other two winners were Gimmethegreeenlight filly Gimme Perfect and Querari filly South Of France. The trio converted respective odds of 18/10, 7/1 and 7/1.
Major Master looks to be coming into his own and could have races like the Gr 3 Ownpay Peninsula Handicap, i which he finished second last year, and the Gr 2 Anthonih Ruper Premier Trophy, in which he was unplaced last year, in his program. Both Of those race are over 1800m.
In another signicicant result on the day last year’s BSA National Yearling Sale-Topper, October Rush (Rafeef), who was knocked down to Form Bloodstock for R4.25 million, got off the mark at the third time of asking in an Open Maiden over 1600m.
Earlier, Mickaelle Michel won her first ride back in the country on the James Crawford-trained Stitchintime.
