7:40PM, FEB 13 2021
Captain Al colt Malmoos had risen right through the ranks in a few months last year, taking both the Grade 3 Graham Beck Stakes and Grade 2 Concorde Cup before a tilt at the highest level just before Christmas.
Sent off favourite for the Cape Guineas at Kenilworth, Mike de Kock’s representative had appeared to be in with every chance before meeting interference and fading to ninth behind Russian Rock.
Malmoos was perfectly ridden by Luke Ferraris to win the 2021 World Sports Betting Sponsored Gauteng Guineas.
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Youth is the word as Luke and Malmoos line up at Gauteng Guineas
Mike Moon
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Cape Town Met teenage hero Luke Ferraris has a good chance to keep his name in lights when he partners hot-shot Malmoos in the Grade 2 World Sports Betting Gauteng Guineas at Turffontein on Saturday.
The 19-year-old Luke Ferraris showed off his burgeoning talents at Kenilworth last weekend, as he steered Rainbow Bridge to victory in Western Cape’s biggest race.
He managed to switch off the notoriously excitable champion soon after the start, kept remarkably cool as the gelding dawdled at the back of the field, and then executed the well-laid plan of an outside-rail run to claim the honours.
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Bad horses don’t win the Cape Guineas. That’s an adage bandied about in racing – and is largely borne out by the list of winners of the great race down the years. So, what is one to make of Russian Rock, 100-1 winner of the 2020 running? The grey colt’s trainer Dean Kannemeyer concedes that he might have “slightly underestimated” his charge, but points out that he is always conservative in his approach to his horses – especially the young ones. “I like to keep my feet on the ground and let my horses do their talking from the winner’s.