STABLE’S GOOD RECORD

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26398, 17 April 1951, Page 4

STABLE’S GOOD RECORD

SIX WINS IN THREE WEEKS

Six wins, two seconds, and one third from 15 starts is the good record built up during the past three weeks by four horses trained at Ricca "ton by J E. Shaw for Mr J. H. Watson. The earnings for that period by Detective, Kerry Song, Open Range and Detention total £lB3O. Detective has been the best winner for the stable since the opening of the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting on March 26. The Defaulter three-year-old has raced five times for three wins worth £760. He recorded his first win in the Courtenay Handicap on the first day at Riccarton and on the third day he won the Richmond Handicap. At Oamaru on Saturday j he finished fast to win the Waitaki Hack Handicap. The two-year-old Kerry’ Song raced twice at Riccarton for a win and a second. He was the runner-up to! Sinister in the Autumn Nursery | Handicap on the second day at Riccarton and won the Richmond Handicap : on the concluding day. These efforts were worth £475 in stakes. Open Range twice raced unsuccess-| fully at Riccarton, but in weaker com- j pany at Oamaru he won the highweight each day for stake money: totaling £360. On Saturday Open Range carried list 31b to win the Pukeuri High-Weight. Handivan, and he had won the Autumn High-Weight on the first day under lOst 81b. Detention was the only stable representative to fail to win a race, a second in the Oamaru Cup and a | third in the Tasman Stakes at Riccar-: ten being his best efforts in four starts. Those placings were worth £235.