Woodruff walks home on a wing

LUCINDA WOODRUFF heads back to a wet Western Cape on Saturday with a song in her heart after a successful raid on Champions Season. Her last three runners have been winners but particularly satisfying will have been Wing Walker notching up a hat-trick of wins at Hollywoodbets Greyville yesterday to round off her raid and get her season off to a winning start. Wing Walker arrived in KZN a maiden but after a promising start when second at Hollywoodbets Scottsville he ramped up his performance, shedding his maiden by five lengths and following up with a hard-fought victory first up in handicap company.

- ANDREW HARRISON

He made further progression yesterday. Stepped up to 1400m for the first time he finished off his race smartly to round off a hattrick before heading home. He appears to be a late maturing son of Rafeef and a mile looks well within his compass.

Run To Rio was game in defeat as he went clear over the subway but was unable to hold off Wing Walker's challenge.

Go Grayson Go and Solar Sail were at the top of the boards for the opening leg of the Pick 6, but the race resulted in a major boil-over as rank outsider Master Josh got the better of Go Grayson Go in a tight finish with Solar Sail outpaced in fourth place behind Down By The River and Mark Khan’s raider probably looking for further.

Master Josh was having his first run for Yadav Singh and was confidently ridden by Jason Gates who is never one to back off ina finish.

Serino Moodley saw him coming and in a tactical move allowed Go Grayson Go to gradually press his rival towards the outside rail. However, Master Josh started to hang in and without coming together, Gates pressured Go Grayson Go to finally get the job done.