JAZZ BRILLIANT IN DERBY

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31519, 6 November 1967, Page 4

JAZZ BRILLIANT IN DERBY

Jazz, a first venture in racing ownership for Mr D. H. Kay, of Wellington, earned favouritism for next Saturday’s New Zealand Oaks with a brilliant win in the New Zealand Derby on Saturday.

Mr Kay races Jazz on lease from the Hawke's Bay studmaster, Mr T. C. Lowry, but the filly is another product of the famous Trelawney Stud.

Bred by Messrs D. H. Blackie and L. S. Otway, Jazz was bought for 1250gns by Mr Lowry at the 1966 national sales.

Mr Lowry bought into the famous southern Francolin family several years ago, and he was supplementing the strength of the family links when he bought Jazz, a daughter of Rousseau’s Dream and the highly successful mare, Dixie.

Mr Kay. as secretary of the New Zealand Thoroughbred Breeders’ Association, has had a working association with Mr Lowry on that organisation, and he readily took up Mr Lowry’s offer to lease Jazz for her racing career. Mr Kay placed Jazz with the Awapuni trainer, E. Tempelton, and the filly carried strong stable hopes when she tilted at Derby honours on Saturday. Jazz’s brilliant late challenge to peg back the favourite, Tulsbn, by half a neck, was a feature of the race. But the classic needed some compensating feature after a disappointing absence of a true pace. The time of 2min 36sec on a fast track was one of the slowest in such conditions in the last 20 years. Most of the three-year-olds pulled hard while the field dragged through the opening half-mile in 56 4-ssec, and the opening six furlongs in Imin ; I

22 2-ssec. But Jazz ran along easily back near the tail-end group, and she responded generously when Tinsley switched her from behind Canny Day to the outside to go through with her run in the straight. Tulson made a quick run into a clear lead going to the final furlong, but Jazz pegged the Southlander back just in time. Le Danois was two lengths back third and, in the opinion of his jockey, N. Eastwood, one of the unluckiest of thirds. Eastwood could not get Le Danois into the clear in the straight while Greenstone was running in under pressure on his right. The Wanganui colt was close to the lead and had a strong run in him at the time. Greenstone was pegged back to fourth after being in the leading line on the home turn. A stronger pace would have suited him better.