Prepak retired

Press, 31 August 1977, Page 39

Prepak retired

i Special correspondent Auckland; Prepak, just turned seven! years old, had her last race; when unplaced in the Bay of Plenty Gold Cup at Tauranga on August 23. She has been; retired for breeding and will be mated with Windsor Park; Stud’s Silver Dream. It will be the second time; Prepak has embarked on a! stud career. The first time, j when a five-year-old, she was! believed safely in foal to Tai- i pan 11. until well into the new year when it became obivious she had not held to 'the mating of the previous I spring. Not that her ownerbreeder, Mr N. H. W. Amon, of Bulls, or trainer R. C. Verner of Takanini have any regrets of Prepak’s early failure to breed. Already a very good win-' ner before the time when she would normally have' been retired from her mating with Taipan 11, she afterwards increased her stake earnings by no less than $46,875. All told, Prepak gathered 17 wins from her 72 starts and, with 25 minor placings! besides, she brought her; stake earnings to $85,620, an amount which puts her into!

!the "big league” of winning (thoroughbred mares. ! No fewer than 10 of Pre(pak’s wins were in stakes i races and as a further example of the care with which ■ she was placed, three of her I four wins last season were in ; $lO,OOO events — the Winter (Handicap at Tauranga, i Champion Stakes, at Ellers- ! He, and the Alison Stakes, !a!so at Ellerslie. ■ With wins in the Lowland i Stakes, Desert Gold Stakes and One Thousand Guineas, Prepak established herself the top three-year-old filly of her year and only bad luck, Verner believes, kept her from adding the New j Zealand Oaks to her successes. Prepak hurt herself returning from Riccarton after ; winning the One Thousand Guineas and consequently had the Oaks in which she failed by less than a length. A bay, of only medium size, by Pakistan 11, Prepak was the fourth foal bred by Mr Amon from Precarious, ! by Chatsworth II from Pay j Packet, an Australian mare I imported to New Zealand hy I the late Sir Woolf Fisher.

Soccer. —The New York Cosmos have won the North American soccer championship for the second time, beating the Seattle Sounders. 2-1. In the 11 years of the league, no club previously won the championship a second time.