Head Girl! The beautiful Antonius Pius filly Yoshie looks too strong in Friday’s Listed Lady’s Slipper Stakes.
Alan Greeff’s four time winner Yoshie stands out head and shoulders in Friday’s R130 000 Listed Lady’s Slipper Stakes at Fairview. Only three of her fifteen opponents have actually won a race, so the daughter of Antonius Pius looks to be well set to take this one in her stride.
It is quite unusual to experience such an alarming lack of winners in a race of this nature, and short of the Cape challenger Darling Moon, the talented Yoshie looks home and hosed.
Yoshie had the distinction on debut of opening the South African account of Highlands stallion, Antonius Pius. Since then she has shown that she is not just a bundle of speedy joy and gone on to better things. She has won a further three races from her next four starts. That also included a cracking victory in the Listed Dahlia Plate as well as a smooth course and distance win at her latest.
Although not being blessed with the best of the draw, she should wallop this lot at level weights. Her stablemate Free Flight has pulled an awful draw and is yet to win from four starts. She did run a distant third in the East Cape Nursery behind Winter Fantasy, but will need to up her game dramatically to have a say.
The third of the Greeff runners is the Miesque’s Approval filly Ndlovukazi. She has been placed at all of her four starts and looks to have nice scope for improvement. She is however held by It’s Freezing.
In the absence of Piere Strydom, Muzi Yeni rides the Indigo Magic filly Darling Moon for Justin Snaith. Darling Moon shed her maiden down the Kenilworth 1200m at her fourth outing and then ran a cracking second behind Pure Power in last Saturday’s Listed Irridescence Stakes at Kenilworth.
The red light immediately flashes! A two year old filly travels 1000km and runs again just six days after a tough feature race effort. But who are we to question the operational decisions of a top trainer who wins the PE features with absolutely monotonous regularity, week in and week out. – Sporting Post
