Endowered young star of Hororata meeting

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33538, 20 May 1974, Page 8

Endowered young star of Hororata meeting

It is entirely possible that when one of the rich staying classics goes into the records next season those who were at Riccarton tor the Hororata meeting on Saturday will remind themselves that thev had several months of advance notice.

Endowered was the youthful star of Saturday’s racing; the ease with which he

slammed his rivals in the Huntonleigh Lodge

Stud Handicap carried the stamp of class.

and held out the highest promise for the Ribotlight colt’s three-year-old racing.

Like many youngsters of ■ such impressive size and scope, Endowered is finding substantial improvement from race to race. He battled for his victory; at the Canterbury Jockey I Club’s meeting last Wednes- I

day.Ajut Saturday’s race was something like a romp for him. None who saw the Mosgiel colt Take Your Leave win by four lengths at Amberley a week earlier could have predicted that he would have been so compre-

hensively beaten by En-i dowered on Saturday. “I thought he was classic material from the start, and he would have probably proved it the first time he went to the races in March but for striking himself,” Endowered’s part-owner, Mr R. G. Gerard, said after Saturday’s win. Mr Gerard bred Endowered from the Treasure Hunt mare Dower. He bought the next dam. Help Mate, for five: guineas, at auction in Christ;

: church over 20 years ago, and ■ has had many enjoyable days of racing since following the fortunes of his home breds, Purser, Sandbank, and, now Endowered. The other racing on Saturday was memorable mainly for the closeness of the finishes in the T.A.B. double races, won by Dufy and New York, and the ease of Opstan’s victory, his second on the course in three days, • in the steeplechase. . Less memorable was the end of the day’s racing, with j divisions o'f the Selwyn Han-j dicap run in gathering dark-' ness, a situation compounded through the delay caused ' when some jockeys had to ride in two divisions.