A master of preparing classy two-year-olds, jockey Vaughan Marshall's prospects for the SA Champions season brightened significantly at Hollywoodbets Kenilworth on Saturday. One World stallion One Stripe won the R1-million City of Cape Town Gr3 Cape of Good Hope Nursery by a landslide. Decent kind.
One Stripe (Bernard Feidalb) dominated the match and won the City of Cape Town Gr3 Cape of Good Hope Nursery (Photo – Chase Liebenberg)
The race was particularly special for the veteran trainer as Captain Al's champion One World celebrated his first graded win in the process.
One Stripe (28-10), who topped Cape Racing's 2023 Ready to Run Unbroken Two-Year-Old Sale with a total of R1.4 million, was ridden by Bernard Faydelb and stormed off a false rail. He won by placing second in the trot. He beat Winds Of Change (11-2) by 1.25 lengths, making him the outstanding Drakenstein-bred.
The winner ran 1200 meters in 70.59 seconds.
Shocked Cape Racing Sales' Cape Slipper winner Little Ballerina (20 wins, 1 loss) continued to maintain a 0.20 length lead and confirmed her strong performance by becoming the filly's first home.
Newly equipped with blinkers, Lion Lampert (7-1) rounded out the quartet with the best performance of the rest.
Roman Agent, the favorite, showed good pace, but got off to a slow start and ended up with a lead of over five horse lengths in the middle.
One Stripe ran with Rakesh Sewgoolam and took his second win and first place in just three starts, taking the stakes bank to R692,313.
She is a Drakenstein Stud-bred horse and is descended from the three-time winning Silvano mare Silverstripe, who performed well up to 2450m and won.
For the Drakenstein-based first-year stallion One World, the 2019-2020 Equus champion old stallion recorded 10 wins in just 14 races, commemorating his sensational victory in the 2020 Gr1 Sunmet. It was the day to do it.
Oneworld is offering 11 lots at Sunday's BSA Cape Yearling Sale.
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