The Sporting Post wrote this nice report on Hazy Dazy's riveting win in Saturday's Grade 1 Wilgerbosdriff SA Classic:

"A bargain BSA December 2023 Online sale R37 500 purchase, Hazy Dazy’s sensational victory at Turffontein on Saturday in the R1 250 000 Wilgerbosdrift Gr1 SA Fillies Classic epitomized all the good things about this often maligned game.

"Loyalty is the lingering thought. Corne Spies and his owners’ decision to stay staunch in a Grade 1 race to apprentice Trent Mayhew, who has admittedly done nothing wrong on their star filly to date, paid handsome dividends. 

"Mayhew, who courageously returned to the saddle last year after an injury, has only ridden just over 54 career winners at a win strike-rate of 6%, but did everything right in the pressure cooker of the Grade 1 arena on Saturday - and bagged his first major win.

"Without a pacemaker, he had the courage to go up and make the pace. And then fooled everybody when taking that nerve-wracking ‘breather’ in sight of the winning post! 

"All’s well that ends well though, and Hazy Dazy’s gallant showing when looking dead and buried at the 350m marker set her up for a bid to become the sixth SA Triple Tiara winner, and her sire Act Of War’s second, after the Waterman-Wentzel’s War Of Athena in 2021. 

"In an extraordinary race, Hazy Dazy (1-1) kept at her task after being headed – we called it a ‘breather’ – to register 114,17 secs for the 1800m and beat the strong-finishing Gqbereha raider Golden Palm (9-2) by a length, with Scarlett Heart (66-1) running a cracker in third."

Bred by Breedon Stud Close Corporation, the winner is a daughter of Act Of War (Dynasty) out of the Eightfold Path mare, Rabbedoe. 

A BSA December ’23 Online sale R37 500 purchase, Hazy Dazy has now won 6 races with 1 place from her 8 starts for stakes of R1 671 738. 

Hazy Dazy’s owners Rob Macnab, Stergio Poriazis, Xander Spies, Vikash Sobaren, Dhiresh and Chantelle Dasrath and Diveshen Vauapuri.are now in line for the realization of a dream and the bonus of R1 million payable to the winner of all three legs of the Wilgerbosdrift SA Triple Tiara.

Corne Spies commented: "We are so blessed. This is the stuff dreams are made of!"

Mayhew said: "She's a class act. From the day she won her Maiden there was something there. Today was a very gutsy win."