Success for N.Z.-breds

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 34009, 25 November 1975, Page 8

Success for N.Z.-breds

(N Z.P A Staff Crspdt) ! MELBOURNE- | The New Zealand-breds. Steyo and Shiftman carried off the] T.A.B. double at Caulfield on Saturday, both winning strongly. Stevo (Rich Gift—Strawberry)] won the $6OOO Rosstown Plate} 'l2oom in 1:9.8, only .4sec outside the track record. The four-year-old gelding had. wins at Flemington and Mornington in May and June. He had] one New Zealand run for fifth] at Otaki in October, and now has} two seconds and a win from the I four starts in Australia in this campaign. His owner-trainer. Bill I Stephens, will return home this I week, but Stevo will wait until i an aircraft is available. Backed at 13 to 4 (favourite) I and ridden bv Ryan Faulkner, he I beat Aurealis by a length, with] Underground a neck away ini third place Shiftmar (Shifnal—Dogma) won] the day’s main race, the $12,000 Norman Robinson Stakes (2000m),| for the twelfth win of his career.] Other recent wins have included the Coongy Handicap and the Bendigo Cup. Starting the favourite at 7 to 2. Shiftmar was taken to the front bv Stan Aitken just before the turn, and held on in the straight to win by a length and threequarters from Authentic Heir, with the mare Kingston Key (Oncidium—Key) half a length away in third place. The veteran Pakistan II gelding. Zambari, made most of the pace but faded to fourth. Gary Willetts said Kingston Key failea to respond to the whip. Latin Reign, a close second to Captain Peri rhe previous week, ran seventh.