Experience told in the first race at Borrowdale Park today – a 1260m MR 55 Handicap reserved for locally based jockeys only.

The four claiming apprentices gave it their all but only * Rodgers Satombo on Mill Creek managed to get his nose in the door. The race was won – easily – by White Winter with Nkululeko Sibanda in the irons. Brendon McNaughton on Clash City Rocker ran second, Boniface Vengesa and Wee Doch ‘n Dorris came third, and then Mill Creek with *Satombo up.

White Winter, a five-year-old Warm White Night mare bred by Zandvleit Stud, has now won four races. She is owned by Gengiz Goksel and was sent out by the Gokhan Terzi satellite yard.

Congratulations everyone.

Photograph: Zimbabwe Equine News