Quick return for Singapore owner

Press, 10 April 1978, Page 18

Quick return for Singapore owner

By

J. J. BOYLE

i Teddy Doon joined the list ! of overseas-owned winners of major New Zealand races (when he triumphed in style jin the $20,000 Manawatu (Sires’ Produce Stakes on 'Saturday. He won hands down by two lengths on Saturday in the colours of a successful Singapore trainer, Ivan Allan. Until about two weeks (ago this neat young athlete !'was racing in the interests !|of Mr J. Chaytow and the . Te Rapa trainer, Graeme i Rogerson. Allan phoned Rogerson I the other week, with instructions to buy the best j two-year-old in New Zealand J for him. “So I sold him my i(own horse,” Rogerson said (with a touch of wistfulness ,;On Saturday. / Although this in the corresponding race at Ellerslie /a week earlier. Teddy Doon ;)was at odds of 30-to-one on ■ (Saturday. He beat Ballybrit’s

I brother., Avenger, by two; (lengths. ! Tang was the only other! /runner really concerned in 'the finish. She closed dog-! /gedly for a close third, but! i I could never find the acceler-! I'ation to get to grips with )the winner. / Teddy Doon is from the' 'first crop of Rapier II winl.ner in France of four races; ifrom 11 starts. I Rapier II was sired by! Relko, winner of the Derby, | :|the French 2000 Guineas, the!, (French St Leger and Corona'tion Cup. His grandam, Fes-1 ! toon, won the 1000 Guineas! land belongs to the same: i family as the notable stud ■ successes, Atilla and Phara-| ; mond. Pharamond, which was! 'imported by the late Sir I'Woolf Fisher and was later /sold to Japan, is also a stout; influence in the pedigree of/ (Mun Lee, which clinched the ■ Marlboro Filly of the Year' i; Series with a decisive win in il the Manawatu Breeder’s /Stakes on Saturday.