South African Fillies Sprint (Grade 1)
The powerful Tarry/van Niekerk team have kept up a relentless barrage
of top class runners over the last few years and showed once again
that you can ignore them at your own peril.
The 3yold filly
Ethereal Lady, trained by Shaun Tarry and owned by the
well known Mr C J H van Niekerk, slammed her older rivals in a very
fast run race, (and now her record reads 5 from 9) collecting
the
R250K Fillies Mile 3 yolds and the
R125K Lexmark Starling Stakes
(Listed) 3 yolds in the process.
Ethereal Lady has proved a versatile filly and has won races from
1000m up to a mile, beating some of the best along the way.
The second place went to the Michael Roberts runner,
Maelstrom, who
ran to form after showing last time out that she can hold her own in
top class company when finishing in 5th place in the
R125K Poinsettia
Stakes (GR 3) F & M WFA, just 2l behind Alistair Gordon's Disco Queen,
beating some useful sorts.
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