Frequently caught Pacer Saifa (Art major) emerged as a strong competition for the rich playing events for four -year -olds later in the year when he rang home from the tenth at the bell to win the $ 50,000 Binshaw Pace about 2130m in Gloucester Park on Friday evening.
Pay back for safa
During his second performance in West -Australia for Astute Bunbury coach Bob Mellsop, Saifa was a chance of $ 18.60 from Wijd at Barrier Seven, where Deni Roberts is very happy to avoid the early speed fights and to control him back.
Polemarker Lincoln Lou, the favorite of $ 1.28, had to resist a strong early challenge of $ 51 outsider Mr Fantastic, and the lead time was a fast 35.8 sec.
After solid opening enclosures of 30.2sec. and 28.8sec., Roberts made her moving and sent Saifa forward, three wide, 600m from home. The third section of 400m was treated in 28.7 sec. And $ 31 Kans Soho Moonraker came to the alight from the eighth to take the lead with 220m to travel.
Soho Moonraker, however, was flooded in the final phase, in which Saifa finished vigorously, the lead 50 meters from the post and won with half a length of IM Lightning Banner ($ 26), with $ 101 outsider Louie Dior who came to the Bell to be third, five wide on the track.
Lincoln Lou Wanged to finish 11th and was later disqualified after hanging under pressure and racing in the marker pins in the house straight. Three -year -old Lincoln Lou, the youngest runner in the race, found the turnout in the class a difficult assignment, in which Reinsman Gary Hall explained: “It was just too difficult for a three -year -old who was not used to the style of racing, burning from the gate and then kept honest by MR Fantastic.”
Saifa has certainly had an interesting start to his career that now stands at 21 starts for seven victories, seven placements and $ 90,829. He was bred in New Zealand, where he ran twice for a final victory with half a head after racing without coverage in a 2000m event on the grass track in Tauherenika, and a third place.
From there, Saifa has raced in Queensland (five starts for a victory and one placement), New South Wales (five starts for three victories and one placement), South Australia (one start for a second) and Victoria (six starts for a victory and two placements) before arriving in WA.
“My spy found him in Victoria,” said Mellsop, who gave the art major gelding two starts for a narrow second of Cams Boulder and the victory of Friday evening.
“We bought him from Andy Gath (after his wife Kate had driven him for a strong victory by a head with a rate of 1.55.2 over 1720m on Melton on June 7 this year).
“And now Saifa is being syndicated to many people who have been with me for a long time, and Deni has been with me for a long time and almost a hundred winners are coming for me.”
Roberts, the number 1 driver for the powerful Greg and Skye Bond Stable, said: “Bob set me up early as a junior and we formed a good relationship.”
Saifa is the second foal of Gokkers Delight Mare Lovetodream, who raced 34 times for eight victories, 13 placements and $ 73,125. Lovetodream’s younger full brother Gran Chico had 39 starts for nine wins, eleven placements and $ 149,675, with his last 26 begins to be in WA between 2019 and 2024 for three victories and seven placements.
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Through Ken CasellasFor Gloucester Park
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