Aust, experience paid off

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34072, 9 February 1976, Page 8

Aust, experience paid off

The Riccarton trainer Brydon Mills liked what he saw of the stock of the Rockefella horse Good Brandy when he campaigned a team in Australia a few years ago.

When he saw a granddaughter of Rockyfella go through the Waikato sale ring last year he went to $lOOO for her, and so became the owner of Salvaro. now the South Island’s top ranking two-year-old Salvaro, a chestnut speedster by Alvaro, the winner of six races, recorded her fourth successive win when she triumphed in the Canterbury Challenge Stakes at Riccarton on Saturday. and is now to be put aside for a spell as winner of $6695. “We gave some thought to a North Island campaign, hut fillies can go off quickly, and we wouldn't have had a mate for her on the trip," Mr Mills said after his brilliant chestnut won on Saturday. The Canterbury Challenge Stakes was run on a soft track, and Salvaro did not owe her victory to any special aptitude for the conditions. Rather, she floundered in the straight but she capitalised on her sharp turn of early speed to win by three pans of a length from S’oung Kelly. Young Kelly lost second after a protest by Leo Molloy. who had ridden the Gore-trained Like Magic into

■ third a length and a half > behind Young Kelly. » Like Magic had been ham- ; pered when Young Kelly -shifted outwards near the . 400 metres and again about i 300 metres from the end.