Wingatui trainers had good day

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34104, 17 March 1976, Page 8

Wingatui trainers had good day

The Wingatui trainers. 1 Brian Anderton and Tonyp Prendergast, brought horses north to win four of the minor races at Ashburton yesterday. Cock Your Ear and MelJanie, two daughters of the former champion sire Mellay, were easy winners for i the Anderton stable, and] Prendergast won the twoH maiden events with Royal- ! marls and Sir James. Cock Your Ear (Appren- : dees’ Handicap) and Mellanie (Barford Handicap) were ridden well-judged races by the stable apprentice. G. Offen. The Riccarton jockey, Kevin Morton, rode the Prendergast-trained winners, i Mellanie came up with; Jone of the easiest wins of I | the day in the Barford\ ' Handicap. Offen rode her isome way off the blistering! pace, (or which Aristarchus ft

| was responsible, until about ; 600 metres out, but there was no doubting which would win when he mounted his' final challenge from third on I the home turn. Royalfnaris, one of few runners sired by Consul’s Flight (son of Agricola) got the last run at Lateryl and Blue Beacon to win the Trial Stakes No. 1 at odds of over ’2O to one. But Sir James, in only' his second start, was backed: down to second favourite in the Trial Stakes No. 2. Sir James capitalised on a rails run to master the, favourite, Flambie D'Or, then just lasted for a half; head victory over the faster-i finishing West Coast gelding, Kaimoto. Sir James is a four-year-; (old Mellay gelding from’. Allez Vite, dam also of Mel-, ilay Vite, a C.J.C. Metropoli-i tan Handicap winner. |