Before the race the big talk was whether the Mike Bass-trained filly Silver Mountain could
become only the second horse in history to do the Cape Fillies Guineas-Cape Guineas double and she started odds-on favourite.
However, she had a few traffic problems in the straight when looking full of running. After being switched a long way inward she didn’t have enough left to catch Noah From Goa who turned for home right near the front and ran on strongly to convert odds of 5/1.
The Johan Janse van Vuuren-trained Brazuca made it a Highveld raider one-two when flying up and just touching off the equally strong-finishing Brett Crawford-trained Nassa for second. It was Brazuca’s second career Gr 1 runner up finish and he was only three-quarters of a length behind the winner.
Silver Mountain finished only 0,9 lengths behind the winner in fourth but lost little in defeat as her class was evident and with a little more luck she could have got closer.
The other two feature races on the card were both won by the Justin Snaith yard, Heartland just getting up in the Listed Cape Premier Sales Jet Master Stakes over 1600m under Bernard Fayd’Herbe, and Current Event powering through late to comfortably win the Gr 3 Grandwest Cape Summer Stayers over 2500m under S’Manga Khumalo.
– African News Agency (ANA)
