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Back to back Majorca Stakes wins for Inara

Drakenstein Stud scored a remarkable clean sweep of the placings in the R1 million Klawaervlei Majorca Stakes for fillies and mares at Kenilworth on Saturday.

This was when Inara winning the race for the second year in succession, Same Jurisdiction second and Lanner Falcon third.

Same Jurisdiction and Anton Marcus made a bold front running effort to take the race beyond the keeping of the rest of the field and they nearly succeeded. However, over the final sectional of the trip Inara and Grant van Niekerk came strongly from the field and strides before the line the Trippi mare at 13/2 went past Same Jurisdiction to claim the win.

Van Niekerk stood in the irons and saluted the rare second win in the classic fillies and mare’s race with the margin for the 2016 renewal 3/4L.

Same Jurisdiction (Mambo In Seattle) was clear of Lanner Falcon (Trippi) in third with the margin 2 1/2L. Bichette was fourth. The time was 1.39.68 on the Good rated track.

The win was a triumph for trainer Mike Bass who has returned to the track after a serious illness now in a wheel chair after losing a leg and the industry welcomed the result. Champion golfer and well known breeder Gary Player has promised to teach Bass how to play golf from his wheelchair.

In the meantime his daughter Candice has looked after the running of the stable and she will take over the licence at the start of the new season later in the year,

“She is a top class filly, she won the race last year and she has done pretty well in between. I think Candice has done a wonderful job this time to get her ready for this particular race and I think she was spot on today,” said Bass.

“Same Jurisdiction is a tough filly to beat. We came out first time this season and we were a little bit off the top and Same Jurisdiction gave her a good thumping. And then we beat her last time with a further trip of 1800m and then the placings.

“Today she is probably at her very best and as game as she is I think she ran a cracking race to win again today," he said.

“She always gives her best and she never lets me down. She is a filly with such a big heart and back to back wins we could not ask for any better,” said van Niekerk.

Inara is a four-year-old filly by Drakenstein Stud’s sire Trippi out of the Shirley Heights mare Mountains Of Mist and this was her sixth win from 16 starts. She earned a stake of R625,000 for the win.


Racing and Sports

Kenilworth Saturday, 23rd January 2016

7f210y TURF GOOD
ZAR R1,000,000

KLAWERVLEI MAJORCA STAKES (G1)

ZAR R1,000,000
Sex: FM Type: WFA
7f210y TURF GOOD
FP Horse, Age & Sex
Sire & Dam
Jockey
Trainer
SP
WT
1st 2. INARA (SAF) 4yo F
TRIPPI (USA) - MOUNTAINS OF MIST (IRE)
GRANT VAN NIEKERK
MIKE BASS
$7.5
60kg
Drakenstein Stud (Nom: Mrs G A Rupert)
2nd 1. SAME JURISDICTION (SAF) 4yo F
MAMBO IN SEATTLE (USA) - DIANA DE CARLO (SAF)
ANTON MARCUS
DUNCAN HOWELLS
$1.55
60kg
DRAKENSTEIN STUD PROPRIETARY LIMITED

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3rd 4. LANNER FALCON (SAF) 5yo M
TRIPPI (USA) - HOSTA (USA)
B FAYD'HERBE
MIKE BASS
$15
60kg
Drakenstein Stud (Nom: Mrs G A Rupert)
4th 3. BICHETTE (SAF) 4yo F
WESTERN WINTER (USA) - BARDOT (SAF)
S'MANGA KHUMALO
SEAN TARRY
$21
60kg
5th 6. FEAR NOT (SAF) 4yo F
IDEAL WORLD (USA) - KOFFIEFONTEIN (USA)
ALDO DOMEYER
A N MARCUS
$56
60kg

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6th 5. ALEXIS (SAF) 4yo F
DYNASTY (SAF) - RYDETHECREEK (SAF)
CORNE ORFFER
BRETT CRAWFORD
$36
60kg

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7th 7. DEPUTY RYDER (SAF) 4yo F
GO DEPUTY (USA) - MISS RYDER (SAF)
GRANT BEHR
N L BRUSS
$76
60kg

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8th 14. ENTISAAR (AUS) 3yo F
MORE THAN READY (USA) - PURRPURRLENA (AUS)
ANTHONY DELPECH
MIKE DE KOCK
$9
55kg

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9th 10. CRYSTAL CAVERN (SAF) 4yo F
HORSE CHESTNUT (SAF) - SO ROYAL (ZIM)
RAYMOND DANIELSON
A N MARCUS
$71
60kg
10th 15. TAFFETY TART (SAF) 3yo F
TRIPPI (USA) - ROCK CANDY (ARG)
D DILLON
MIKE BASS
$26
55kg

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11th 11. SEA CAT (SAF) 5yo M
VAR (USA) - HANSEA (USA)
JUAN PAUL V'D MERWE
PAUL REEVES
$67
60kg

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12th 9. EVENTUAL ANGEL (SAF) 5yo M
RIGHT APPROACH (GB) - SUMMER ANGEL (SAF)
PIERE STRYDOM
DENNIS DRIER
$21
60kg

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13th 16. MOONLIGHT 'N ROSES (SAF) 3yo F
CAPTAIN AL (SAF) - SOFT LANDING (SAF)
M J BYLEVELD
MIKE BASS
$56
55kg
14th 12. SENSIBLE LOVER (AUS) 4yo M
GOOD JOURNEY (USA) - ALMAH (SAF)
BRANDON LERENA
DARRYL HODGSON
$111
60kg

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15th 8. DOUBLE WHAMMY (SAF) 4yo F
JUDPOT (USA) - FRIDA (SAF)
STUART RANDOLPH
GLEN KOTZEN
$71
60kg

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