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Dynasty son Jackson wins 2012 Cape Derby The curtain comes down on the Cape Summer season at Kenilworth on Saturday with a sumptuous smorgasbord of racing headed by the Jonsson Workwear Gr1 Cape Derby.
tered the Derby off a facile victory in the Metropolitan and to this day, remains the only three-year-old to have completed the coveted Met/Derby double in the same season.
Contested over 2000m as opposed to the true classic distance of 2400m in metric terms, the race was first run in 1946 and what an auspicious event it proved to be. The winner was the Birch-bred colt Feltos, who sprouted wings from a hopeless position in the straight to get up on the post.
The Derby has been won by some extraordinary gallopers and its honour roll boasts the names of such Titans of the Turf as Colorado King, Sea Cottage, Mazarin, Politician and Bold Tropic, while those of a more recent vintage include the champions Dynasty, Jay Peg, Rabiya, Russian Sage, Capetown Noir and Legislate.
Trained by the great Syd Garrett and ridden by Stanley Amos, the colt en-
That the Derby serves as a springboard to further Gr1 success goes without saying
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and many of its winners subsequently embellished their reputations in the country's premier events. A good number of Cape Derby winners have also gone on to enjoy stallion careers and none have been more successful than 2003 winner Dynasty. Although he never topped the Sires Log, the former Ridgemont Highlands stalwart was a permanent fixture among the country's elite and has stamped his authority on the Derby as the sire of a quartet of winners in the space of six years: Jackson (2012), Legislate (2014), It's My Turn (2016) and Eyes Wide Open (2018). In Crimson King,