Vaughan Marshall and his top Guineas prospect, One Stripe. (Picture: Wayne Marks)
Vaughan Marshall will send out his two Gr 1 Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas contenders One World and All Out For Six in the Gr 2 Cape Punters Cup over 1600m at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday, which is the opening meeting of Cape Racing’s Summer Festival Of Racing.
There are only six runners in Saturday’s three-year-old event and One Stripe will take a power of beating having put up a magnificent performance in his seasonal reappearance when actually having to give the reigning Cape Guineas winner Snow Pilot 1kg and losing by only a length.
Marshall confirmed about that 1400m run, “Blinder!”
The One World colt was 7,5kg worse off than weight for age with Snow Pilot and as he is rated 112 to Snow Pilot’s 120 he was 11,5kg worse off than he would have been in a handicap.
Furthermore, Snow Pilot has clearly matured into an exciting four-year-old prospect as he came out and won his next start in dominating style by six lengths.
Marshall said he was very happy with the well-being of One Stripe and All Out For Six, who are both by the record-breaking sire sensation One World and both were bred by Drakenstein Stud.
Vaughan was thrilled to have landed a plum draw of two with One Stripe in the Hollywoodbets Cape Guineas, which is to be run on December 14, although All Out For Six was not as lucky and landed draw 20 of the initial 21 entries.
Vaughan will be out to create some history by winning the Cape Guineas with three generations of the same paternal family.
He won it with Captain Al in 2000 and with the sons of Captain Al, William Longsword and Tap O’ Noth, in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
Vaughan also trained Captain’s Al’s son One World, who didn’t win the Guineas, but if either of his sons One Stripe or All Out For Six wins the Cape Guineas it will be a remarkable three paternal generations of success in the Cape Guineas all trained by the same trainer.
Vaughan has won five Cape Guineas in all as he also won it with Sea Warrior in 1986 and Face North in 1990.
He has actually gone close to doing it with a paternal grandson of Captain Al’s before as Linebacker, who was by Captain Al’s son Captain Of All, was desperately unlucky not to win it in 2020.
One Stripe currently has the reputation of being the most exciting three-year-old in the country.
However, Vaughan views One Stripe as a sprint-miler at this stage and so the WSB Met is definitely not on his agenda.
There is three weeks between the Punters Cup and the Cape Guineas and then another three weeks until the L’Ormarins King’s Plate, so running One Stripe in the latter race is not out of the question.
However, One Stripe’s chief aim after the Guineas will be the R5 million CRS Big Cap over 1400m on March 16 at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth.
One Stripe is owned by Rikesh Sewgoolam and All Out For Six is owned by The One World racing Syndicate (nominee: Vaughan Marshall).
All Out For Six reopposes the Justin Snaith-trained Lancaster Bomber colt Eight On Eighteen on Saturday in the Punters Cup. Eight Of Eighteen won the Gr 3 Langerman over 1500m in his last start on June 22, beating second-placed All Out For Six by 0,75 lengths.
Cape Racing’s Summer Festival Of Racing officially starts on Saturday, but Marshall has already clinched two Graded features in the Cape this season, winning the Gr 3 Kuda Matchem Stakes over 1400m with Questioning (Querari) and the Gr 3 Cape Mile last Saturday with Rascallion (Vercingetorix).
