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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.
5:25PM, JAN 30 2021
Foxwedge is now the sire of four individual Group winners, all of whose victories have been achieved in different countries, after Run Fox Run joined the list in the Cape Flying Championship at Kenilworth on Saturday.
A Group 1-winning sprinter in Australia, the Fastnet Rock stallion spent the middle of last decade at Whitsbury Manor Stud in Hampshire before returning home, and has been based at Woodside Park Stud in Victoria.
His best performers to date have been Foxplay, who took the Group 1 Queen Of The Turf Stakes in Australia, New Zealand s Railway Stakes winner Volpe Veloce and Urban Fox, who took the Pretty Polly Stakes in Ireland.