Ken Casellas | Photo: PACEPIX
A fast start from out wide at barrier seven paved the way for Sugar Delight’s easy all-the-way win in the $21,000 Gee Heza Sport Team Bond Pace over 2130m at Gloucester Park on Friday night.
Bred and owned by the Howlett family and prepared by Busselton trainer Barry Howlett, Sugar Delight was the $2.30 favourite who gave her supporters little cause for concern as she dictated terms in front and sprinted over the final 400m sections in 28.8sec. and 28.4sec. to beat $8 chance Malakie by a length at a 1.57.4 rate.
Four-year-old Sugar Delight is lightly raced, with her 15 starts producing four wins, seven placings and stakes of $49,687. She is by champion sire Bettors Delight and is the second foal out of Art Major mare Savannah Maguire, who raced eleven times for five placings and $17,202 in prizemoney.
The New Zealand-bred Savannah Maguire’s final start was her only appearance in WA when she finished second to Alfs Odyssey at Bunbury on February 11, 2017. Her first foal Sugarloaf raced six times on WA country tracks in 2022 and 2023 for four wins, two at Albany and one each at Bunbury and Pinjarra, as well as two second placings at Pinjarra.