JUSTIN Snaith joined the select handful of trainers to win South Africa’s most famous race three years on the trot when six months of patient planning reaped a historic reward with Belgarion in the Vodacom Durban July at Greyville last Saturday.

When the four-year-old won the Peninsula Handicap at Kenilworth in January, Snaith told this writer: “Belgarion has a huge future come the Durban season but the previous time I ran him (in September) he got a sharp rise in the weights and I had to put him away.