William Robertson puts them to bed

WILLIAM ROBERTSON is every owner’s dream horse and has done the list of owners under his name in the racecard proud.

- ANDREW HARRISON

AFRICAN DUSK, apprentice Damyan Pillay up, for Garth Puller. Left Keagan de Melo and long-time pacemaker MASTER DU ROUVRAY at Hollywoodbets Scottsville yesterday.

(Race Coast/Graham Daniel)

‘Willie’ may never have hit the headlines in the way of an Eight On Eighteen or One Stripe, but he is as honest as the day is long and has a constitution of iron. Corne Spies has done a wonderful job in keeping the son of Rafeef sound and enjoying his racing and the gelding fully deserved his win in the Gr1 Computaform Sprint back in March last year.

However, he had been winless since in nine subsequent outings but back on what is possibly his favourite course and distance, he was hardly pressed to score the 16th win of his career from 52 starts. He landed the African Holly Stakes at Hollywoodbets Scottsville yesterday with consummate ease.

As expected, King Of The Gauls under Andrew Fortune took off like a scalded cat but Ryan Munger sat in just behind with the balance of the field including fancied Cats Pajamas all outpaced.