Joey Ramsden is beginning to mop up the Cape Town two-year-old races like a sponge and two more at Kenilworth on Saturday mean that he has now won five of the last seven plus the only Listed event so far.

Ossie Noach, who went on to win the last on the Glen Puller-trained Best Nut Ever, was able to make the most of a chance ride on 11-1 shot Speedpoint while Keagan de Melo made all on Favola to follow up Friday evening’s Greyville double.

Favola, Italian for fairy tale according to part-owner Gisela Burg, was backed from 8-1 to 9-2 and had odds-on stable companion Dynasty’s Blossom nearly two lengths back third. Ramsden sees a future for both fillies.

He said: “We will keep going for a bit with Favola. When Sihle Cele rode her first time his saddle was the size of my hand and it dug into her back while the next time she got into all sorts of trouble. Dynasty’s Blossom is a very nice filly but she needs to strengthen up so I may put here away. She reminds me a lot of Just Sensual.”

The Cape Fillies Guineas winner was put aside to develop after only one juvenile run and did not reappear until eight weeks before her classic triumph. Professor Brian, though, is belatedly making hay and the extraordinary way he completed a hat-trick in the 1 200m handicap suggests there is plenty of improvement still in the tank.

The 15-10 favourite, who carries Bernard Kantor’s colours but is part-owned by Brian and Kathy Finch, lost three lengths at the start and was soon six lengths off the pace. Grant van Niekerk had to switch left then right to get a run – “the jockey in front of me lugged in” – yet his mount was able to come away to win comfortably.

“He went in the wind even before his first start,” recalled Ramsden who put this year’s sustained improvement down to gelding as well as the wind op.

Apparently, though, it was nothing like so straightforward with the similarly-transformed Shall Be Free who made it four wins and a second from his last five starts under Richard Fourie in the mile handicap.

“It has taken me some time to figure him out and find his little quirks,” said Mike Robinson, the pained expression on his face reflecting weeks of mental torture as he sought to find the solution. Breeder and part-owner, Peter de Beyer, though, seemed to suggest it was all too obvious. “Simple really,” he said. “He doesn’t like going between other horses. He has to come either inside them, or outside.”

Fourie is only six short of his century after following up on top weight Big Ed in the Tab Handicap. Unfortunately the six-year-old entire pulled up sore and his rider had to dismount before the winner’s box. “He has done this before,” pointed out a hopeful-sounding Shane Humby.

Dean Kannemeyer decided to ease off with Weston when his Milnerton stable was hit by that well-publicised virus two months ago and he felt understandably vindicated when Grant Behr’s mount defied an 11-week absence in the Racing Association Maiden.

It was only in the last gasp that Aldo Domeyer got up on warm favourite Twilight Trip in the mile maiden but both he and Candice Bass-Robinson reckon there is more to come with the trainer explaining: “He is a big angular horse who has ability – it’s just a matter of putting it all together. We trained his mother, Love Is In The Air, who won the 2010 Majorca and he will improve.”

By Michael Clower