Superb win from Life In Colour
This colt looks highly promising!
Three generations of Spies horsemen - A Life In Colour! (JC Photos).
Corne Spies-trained Malmoos gelding Life In Colour slammed the opposition in a start to finish victory over 1400m at the Vaal today (Wednesday), reported Turf Talk.
Life In Colour is a half-brother to True To Life, a Northfields Stud-bred Duke Of Marmalade filly who won two Gr 3s, was runner up in the Gr 1 SA Fillies Sprint and was twice placed third in the Gr 1 Computaform Sprint.
Life In Colour is also a half-brother to the Spies-trained Listed-placed speedster African Pride.
Life In Colour was beaten 7,80 lengths on debut by a fair sort in Sherlock Holmes, but then ran a good 1,50 length third next time out over 1160m at Turffontein Standside. He was noticeably resolute in that run so was surely going to be suited to the Vaal 1200m.
He amazingly drifted right out from 4/1 to 25/2 as Raptor King, who had been green before finishing strongly on debut, remained steady at around 7/10 and there was support for first-timer Master Smoker.
Life In Colour pinged the gates from draw 5 in the eleven horse field and never looked back. He carved out a lead under Mickaelle Michel and kicked in the final stages to beat Master Smoker by 4,50 lengths with Raptor King, who was a touch green again, beaten 8,25 lengths.
Life In Colour relished the step up in trip and both Mickaelle Michel and Corne Spies said he could improve further if calming down more in the preliminaries. Corne said he had improved in that respect today from his first two starts and he added that he was looking forward to seeing him go over classic distances.
Michel said: “I’m glad I knew him better after riding him last time. I understand him better now. He showed big improvement today. He is going to be a good horse."
The Spies yard rate Malmoos and identified him as a horse to support at the sales and so far it looks to be paying dividends.
He was bred by Robin Bruss’s Northfields Stud. He races for the partnership of Messrs Rob Macnab, Chris Brown, P Gobrie, Stergio Poriazis, Xander Spies, V Mahabeer, A R Asaram, M Pillay, J Soobiah, P W Viljoen & Adv J J B Schutte.
