Stanley Rio appeals in Challenge Stakes

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34045, 8 January 1976, Page 6

Stanley Rio appeals in Challenge Stakes

Since nosing Lumber Box out of first in the Second Rie- , carton Stakes at Addington Raceway on Show Day, Stanley ’ Rio has had to settle for minor placing*.

But if all goes well in the running for the Nevelle Golfer colt in the Timaru Challenge Stakes at Washdyke on Saturday he could put another well-deserved victory on his record. The latest of near-misses for Stanley Rio came in the Cross Stakes at Addington Raceway on New Year’s night. In that sprint event for three-year-olds he was run down by Bolton Byrd and Trusty Scott in the clos-: >ng stages after trying to l lead for the last 1300 metres. Stanley Rio faces no easy task again tomorrow. He is the lone runner of 15 on the I f>-met re mark so is bound

to need a bit of luck to keep, out of trouble while the, scramble for positions is on. Stanley Rio will not have hi> Addington conqueror, or the runner-up. to contend with this time but he is bound to get plenty of competition from a small group of talented three-year-olds. Avalon Globe. American Chief and Pursue are laststart winners assured of solid backing and Kama Chief, too. is likely to be on, the short list of fancies. BEAT MONARQUE Avalon Globe did not take' ' long to make an impression on the holiday circuit in Otago. He was having only! his second start — he was I runner-up at the first — when he beat the highly-re-garded Monarque in the

•IO mak a u Three-year-old (Stakes last Friday. The next night it was American Chiefs turn to break through for his first win at Greymouth. That victory was preceded by sec-i onds in two of his previous; three races so he. too. has been pretty consistent alls round. Pursue was also successful on the West Coast holiday; circuit. He cleared maiden; I class at Reefton last Monday; week but did have much in! the way of form com-: , mendations leading up to; i that win. Kama Chief’s last two; runs have yielded a first and |a third. He was successful in the Roi L’Or Stakes, a sprint! event for three-year-olds § only at Waimate last month.; then turned in another! sound run to finish third, j after trying to lead for the; last 2400 metres of 3200 at I Ashburton on Boxing Day. There is little in the way! of strong recent form among the others but if Stephen! Direct, Adios Charm or: Castle Command come up with peak runs they could' add interest to the finish. A coll as Aew Year present Shoal, one of Riccarton’s! outstanding race mares of: the 1950’5, and dam of the brilliant but ill-fated Dhow, , gave her owners, Mr and!: Mrs J. F. Tutton, a bright, ‘ young New Year present. j On the first morning of; 1976 the 23-year-old Dogger! 1 Bank mare foaled a colt to! King Canary. It was her first! foal for five years, but she' showed no effects of an experience that might have made inroads on the vitality! of one of her age. ’Princess* on I of sale ’ (‘ The Press’’ Special Service) DUNEDIN. The daughter of the champion sire, Oncidium, and the great race mare. Princess Mellav. will : not enter the ring at the • National Yearling Sales at Trent ham this month. The filly. Princess Orchid, got cast in her box and has de- , veloped a swelling in the hock! ot her rear hind leg. Her breeder. Mrs Alice Anderton, of Wingatui, now intends to race Princess Orchid, the second i*oal of her dam. “We will be quite happy if she can win us a New Zealand Cup or Oaks.” said Mrs Anderton's husband. Hector, who prepared Princess Mell ay. the only dual winner of the New Zealand . Cup this century. Anderton will offer a colt by Mellay from AUez Vite, thus a : brother to the C.J.C MetropoJi- , tan Handicap winner. Mellay I Vite, at the National Sales. X.Z. skippers | stand in f.\ Z Press Assn—Copyright) \ BRISBANE. Showing masterly downwind-, tactics, the Sydney skiff Miles: Furniture, skippered by Steve? Kulmar. came from behind to win the third heat of the Australian 18-footer sailing championships on the Brisbane River. Kulmar overcame a 2min 4sec < deficit on the last downhill run j to edge out another Sydney skip- • per. Dave Griffith, in Ansett • Airlines. Miles Furniture won by 225ec.,, with the Queensland boat Auto; - i Plastics 3min 20sec behind in third spot. A feature of the racing was i' that the two top New Zealand ( 18-foot skippers. T. McDell and 1 W. Innes, were pressganged into 1 tailing in the contest. < McDell took over the Austra- * Jian yacht Windward Sails through the sickness of her skip-. per R. Chapman, and Innes replaced R. Williams, who was also ill on the New Zealand yacht P.G.H.