Win bridged family link with Ashburton

Press, 16 September 1976, Page 24

Win bridged family link with Ashburton

‘ Racing and trotting

The Riccarton trainer. Gordon Barr, collapsed k and died on the Ashburton racecourse on March • 19, 1968, minutes after ■ he saw Conway Stewart, 'of which he was part- * owner, win a division of a maiden race in the lhands of Bill Skelton.

Also in Orbit, a half-sister to Conway Stewart, bridged a family link with the course when she won last Saturday in the colours of Mr David Allin, proprietor of the Morwenstow Stud at Kaiapoi. “The late Gordon Banmade it all possible for me to have that winning expert-

•ence as an owner,” Mr Ailin recalled this week. 1 “It was on his advice that I bought the Alonzo mare [Also. the dam of Conway iStewart and Also In Orbit. [He had her in his stable at I Riccarton. found she had i speed to burn, but was not a ! racing proposition because of iher temperament.” Also was owned by Mr Allan Cameron, of Christ- | church, and he passed her on Ito Mr Allin for $4OO. I Conway Stewart (By Fountainhead) was Also’s first foal.

To Campo the Alonzo mare left Cabrilite, winner of six races in Australia.

In 1967 she foaled another Fountainhead colt, which

|was purchased at auction in | Christchurch by Mr Alf Jones, of Sydney, and, as Sir | Alfred, was a winner in New South Wales. I Also In Orbit, an easy [winner by four lengths at I Ashburton last Saturday, was [the product of Also’s first mating with Morwenstow’s Alcide horse Orbiter.

Also In Orbit is five, but was given plenty of time to mature, being raced only once last season, then put aside, and given a course of roadwork before rejoining Jim Lalor’s Ashburton stable a few weeks ago. Also in Qrbit’s win at her third attempt this time up last Saturday reflected stable confidence in her ability over

a bit more ground, and Lalor now plans to step her up to a middle distance at the North Canterbury meeting on Labour Day. Also in Orbit will be joined in the Lalor stable soon by her three-year-old half-sister Keshena.

Sired by the ill-fated Keekerok, Keshena has something to live up to: she bears the North American Indian name for one "swift in flight.” Also at War is the name to be sought for Also’s yearling filly by the stud’s Kurdistan horse War Admiral. Also will foal this spring to the Acropolis horse Sabratel.