Apprentices Dominate The Taranaki Circuit

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30641, 6 January 1965, Page 4

Apprentices Dominate The Taranaki Circuit

"The Press” Special Service

WANGANUI.

Apprentice jockeys dominated the open events on the Taranaki - Wanganui New Year galloping circuit. Heading the list was the Essexborn, 17-year-old, D. K. Moore, who took the Stratford T.A.B. double on New Year’s Day with Dr. Jekyll and Super Time, and then had a surprise Marton Cup success on the front running Kaupane. Moore, who is apprenticed to N- Crawford at Matamata, travelled south to assist the Waikato trainer, C. Casey, on the Taranaki circuit. He took three victories from four mounts at New Plymouth before annexing the Stratford double.

His Marton Cup engagement on Kaupane was a chance one. Originally S. B. Robertson was due to take the mount, but he could not make the weight so Moore accepted the ride. Another northern apprentice, D. Sanderson, from the Jennings stable at Pukekohe, took the Stratford second day first leg, the Malone Memorial, on Carlynn. The victory was Sanderson’s third and his first open handicap. Sanderson almost pulled off the second leg on Preferable, but he went down to the outsider Purserette in a tight six-horse finish. Purserette was ridden by a Feilding apprentice, J. D. Waite, who scored his first success.

Waite, who was having his seventh ride, is apprenticed to I. Tinsley, but is currently on loan to the trainer’s son, K. I. Tinsley, at Otaki. It was apt that 17-year-old

Waite should score his first win at Stratford for he worked there as a telegraph messenger till he entered a stable in 1963.

Rider Hurt

(N.Z. Press Association) INVERCARGILL. The jockey, W. J. Hillis, who crashed heavily on Koral during the running of the Gladstone Hurdles at Invercargill yesterday, was taken to hospital with a suspected fractured collarbone and concussion.

Rider Fined

(N.Z. Press Association) INVERCARGILL. G. W. Wright, the rider of Missionary in the Summer Cup at Invercargill yesterday, was fined £l5 for causing Interference to Margaret York and Ballyhoo. The incident occurred about half a mile from home when Wright’s mount interfered with Margaret York, which in turn interfered with Ballyhoo. A similar charge against J. M. Cappie, the rider of Kathleigh in the Makarewa Handicap, was dismissed. Cappie was charged with causing interference to Cadmean and Longwood Light at the home turn.

DUNEDIN JOCKEY CLUB FESTIVAL MEETING JANUARY 23 and 30, 1965 ENTRIES for both days CLOSE TO-MORROW (THURSDAY), JANUARY 7, 1965, at 4 p.m. Programme in Racing Calendar of December 16 and 23. L. G. DE LA PERRELLE, Secretary. Telephone 70-863, P.O. Box 142 Telegrams: "Racing,” Dunedin. —Advt.