Tony Rivalland’s Celtic Beauty and Mike Miller’s Narina Trogon won Listed features over 1750m at Scottsville on Sunday. The latter has been a revelation since moving up to KZN and picked up another win in the Sledgehammer Stakes - a race that was slow run early with ability to quicken decisively the key.

Celtic Beauty’s Scarlet Lady victory came in a time that was 3.43 seconds quicker. She was heavily punted from 5/1 into half those odds and duly attained Listed honors under high-flying jockey, Richard Fourie.

Nothing earth-shattering came out of the Cape meeting though there were still some solid performances on the clock. Mont Loisir was backed with confidence to win a Maiden and did so with a good speed figure of 95, albeit with a glacier-slow come home sectional. Runner up Water Dragon (s/s 91) shows potential and should not be long in shedding his Maiden tag over 1800m.

Tyrion Lannister (s/s 98) was very game coming back to head Solomons Seal (s/s 97) who made what seemed a race winning move in deep stretch in Race 6. And Green Mandarin (s/s 98) woke up big time to mug Voorloopertjie (s/s 97) in an exciting finish to an 1800m Class 4 which yielded a much stronger figure than usual for the grade.

Likewise, nothing too dramatic unfolded at the Turffontein meeting. I am Regal (s/s 95) and Haberdier (s/s 91, just pipped Longsword in a thriller) recorded neat performances in winning MR 92 and MR 90 handicaps respectively. Bingwa and Dreamland also won well enough though the final times were not remarkable.