KOREA RACING AUTHORITY FILLIES GUINEAS (GRADE 2) – R 300 000
GREYVILLE RACECOURSE
DATE: Saturday, 2 May 2015
AGE/ CONDITION: 3 Year Old Fillies at Level Weights over 1600m
ENTRIES: 11:00am Friday, 17 April 2015 – Fee: R 684
SUPP ENTRIES: 11:00am Friday, 24 April 2015 – Fee R 2736
WEIGHTS: Friday, 17 April 2015
Weight to be carried: 60kg
Northern Hemisphere allowance applies
DECLARATIONS: 11am Tue, 28 April 2015
– Fee R2736
2014 KRA Fillies Guineas
Horse: MAYBE YES
Jockey: Glen Hatt
Trainer: Brett Crawford
Owners: Messrs G M Grant, C S Haynes, Mr & Mrs F Ladeira & Miss J B Slack
Breeder: Wilgerbosdrift
ABOUT: THE KRA (Korea Racing Authority) FILLIES GUINEAS
First run in 1971 as the South African Fillies Guineas, this great race is famous for the emergence as a star in the making of the sensational Zimbabwean-bred filly Ipi Tombe, a filly that went on to win the Woolavington 2000 nd the Vodacom Durban July before becoming an international star with magnificent wins in the Dubai Racing Carnival and at the Dubai World Cup.
ROLL OF HONOUR:
2014
It was the Snaith-trained Jet Master filly In The Fast Lane that was favourite to win but she and the other 10 fillies had no answer to the powerful finish delivered by the Tiger Ridge filly Maybe Yes from the Crawford yard. The filly gave a scintillating performance to win by nearly two lengths in a time of 95.96 sec.
The Trippi filly from the Geoff Woodruff stable, Not Sulking, ran another genuine race to take second place with In The Fast Lane coming through for third place ahead of Lanner Falcon.
Both jockey Glen Hatt and trained Crawford said it was a good performance from the filly bearing in mind that her preparation had not gone as planned with her having to be withdrawn from her scheduled prep run.
2013
Mike de Kock had pulled off the surprise win in the KRA Guineas with Vercingetorix and completed the Guineas double when his filly Festival Of Fire burnt up the track to win comfortably from Jet Aglow, Jet Supreme and King’s Temptress. The filly had settled in the pack in the early stages but cruised clear in the straight to win by 2.5 lengths.
2012
Having been beaten into second place with Berry Blaze in the previous year, the powerful Mike de Kock stable came to the fore when the Australian-bred Amanee carried the colours of Sheikh Mohammed Bin Khalifa al Maktoum to victory from Reason To Believe and Felix The Cat. Amanee had won the Grade 1 Thekwini Stakes as a juvenile and her brilliant win in this 1 600m event proved she was a filly of considerable class.
2011
Some very smart fillies went to post for the race but there was no stopping the Dennis Drier-trained Beach Beauty who won convincingly from Berry Blaze and Legal Account. Beach Beauty went on to win the Betting World 1900 and perform strongly in the country’s two top races, the Vodacom Durban July and J&B Met.
Returning to Durban she won the Drill Hall Stakes and ran second to the mighty Variety Club in the Gold Challenge at Clairwood. She then showed her class with another scintillating victory in the Garden Province Stakes on Vodacom Durban July day before making her way back to the Cape for the summer season. She opened her campaign winning a pinnacle stakes race over 1 400m and followed that up with a third place in the Green Point Stakes before thrashing her opposition in the Paddock Stakes for the second year running.
