Justin Snaith-trained Drakenstein Stud-homebred One World colt Please Be True wins the first race held in rain-lashed Cape Town this month (Picture: Wayne Marks)
The Justin Snaith-trained first race winner today at Hollywoodbets Durbanville, Please Be True ridden by Gavin Lerena, gave leading freshman sire One World his 28th individual winner of the season. That is already a freshman record and is just two short of the overall record for individual two-year-old winners in a season held by his father Captain Al.
Justin Snaith accumulated R160,100 with a win, a second and a third in the three races which were possible at the meeeting.
Meanwhile, Sean Tarry was only able to accumulate R11,500 via two fourth place finishes at Hollywoodbets Scottsville.
At Durbanville the race meeting had to be abandoned after race three.
The underfoot conditions had deteriorated due to persistent rainfall.
The surface had thus become unsafe for racing.
Snaith went past the R20 million mark in stakes earnings this season.
He is now on R20,133,200 compared to Tarry’s R18,594,263.
Snaith is now R1,538,937 ahead.
The championship race could still go down to the wire though because Tarry has a particularly strong hand at the lucrative World Pool Gold Cup meeting at Hollywoodbets Greyville on Sunday.
