Top Three-year-old Oamaru Fancy

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32321, 12 June 1970, Page 1 (Supplement)

Top Three-year-old Oamaru Fancy

The veteran Wingatui trainer, H. A. Anderton, can lay fair claim to have the two top-ranking South Island three-year-olds of the season.

He won the New Zealand Oaks with Princess Mellay and when that good filly went amiss not long after -her second to Marnie in the Wellington Oaks he directed Trelay’s programme towards a | start in the New Zealand St Leger in March. Trelay found Not Again and Far Time too good for: him in the St Leger, but his

third, after a fourth in the mile Thompson Handicap on the first day of the Wellington autumn meeting will do much to assure him of favouritism for the Oamaru Winter Cup tomorrow. i Trelay was freshened for a few weeks after his strenu- | ous race in the St Leger, and i resumed with a bold run for a close second to Watchman over seven furlongs at 1 Wingatui last week. Trelay is raced by an uncle-nephew partnership of

Messrs J. W. G. and B. G. White, of Omakau. If he wins tomorrow he three-year-old will continue a family pattern. His dam. Treasure Pond, won her first open-class race on the Oamaru course, and on that occasion she was ridden by H. T. Anderton, who is preparing Aidershot for tomorrow’s Oamaru Winter Cup Unlike Trelay. Treasure Pond failed to win at three years, but she developed useful form later. In her first victory, and in her final one. which was in the Gore Cup. she was ridden by R. J. Skelton. If Jay Ribbon shows anything resembling his best

form of two years ago he should be an almost certain place-getter in the Oamaru feature race. Jay Ribbon struck a rich patch of form in his three-year-old racing. After winning a treble as a hack at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s autumn meeting he soon established himself in open company with a Waimate Cup victory. Two starts later he beat several of New Zealand’s winter milers in the Wellington Racing Club’s Whyte Handicap. Last season Jay Ribbon won the Manawatu Cup. Early this season he was taken to Melbourne but went wrong on' the trip, and did not reappear| until the second day of the; Dunedin winter meeting on! June 1. It was a somewhat j promising reappearance, too! —he finished fifth in the racej won by Shipboard—but. more; important, he came up well with the race. If all goes well in the! meantime Jay Ribbon will be back at Trentham next month for another tilt at Whyte Handicap honours. ; His performance tomorrow i should throw some light on I his chances in the rich Wel- ' lington mile.