Sanders team to separate

Press, 24 June 1978, Page 20

Sanders team to separate

PA Auckland The most successful, training partnership in New Zealand horse racing will soon cease. 'From the beginning of next season. W. Sanders and his son, G. K. Sanders, are to operate independently. The move, which both men consider will be to their mutual advantage, has been discussed for quite a while. The younger Sanders, aged 29, thinks it is time he struck out on his own. His father, for so long one of the most respected and successful men in New Zealand racing, said on Saturday it was an appropriate time for the training establishment to be reorganised as two businesses. It is the younger Sanders’s , hope to eventually train a team of 30 horses. He will continue (to have responsibility for the aporentices C. B. Corney. C. G. Brierley and W. L. McGuire. W. Sanders will carry on with the properties known as No. 1. No. 4, and No. 5 stables and will continue to emplov the jockeys C. P. McNab and G. F. Julius. If the pattern of recent years is continued. G. K. Sanders,'who has been employed in the family stable practically all his working life, will mark in some wav notable his “going it alone.” On the first day he had his trainer's licence the stable won the Grand National Steeplechase with Spra? Doone. On the day of bis marriage, a stable runner, Brookhv Hill, took the Desert ; Gold Stakes and he was on his| honevmoon in Christchurch when another of the stable’s three- \ ear-olds. Fairview Lad. won the New Zealand Derby.