Only small pickings for South Island stables
North Island horses flown, into Christchurch last week! "took wings” again at Riccarton on Saturday in a devastating assault an the 1 Canterbury Jockey Club’s, feature races. The northerners left only; two minor races for the; south, winning eight and • carrying off $42,920 of the total stakes of $59,375. Leading the assault was the Singapore-owned. Te Rapa-trained Teddy Doon, winner of the New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas. Bahrain, also from Waik-
ijato, snatched victory in the,l | last stride in the Benson and i • Hedges Gold Cup, and bisp ' t w o-year-oid stablemate,; :! Fantan, triumphed in the j Welcome Stakes. < The Hastings-owned and i trained Stevo was flown to I : I Christchurch on Friday ini' I an aircraft named .“Pegasus”! • J and on Saturday he won the ! ! sprint of that neme. sj Mr Bill Stephens’s grey H charged home to beat the! J favourite. Sly Wink, by a! ('length and a half and he! sped over the 1000 m ini' 57.70, a New Zealand record !'
,by almost a second. The pre-! I vious best electronically-1 timed 1000 m was Kay! (Ward’s 58.69 at Avondale in; 1976. Other winners for North; !Island stables on Saturday' (were Kanga’s Lad (Jockey) Club Handicap), Annegretl ((First Graduation Plate) 1 'Life’s a Gamble (Brighton! Handicap) and Gay Heiress ( ((Spring Plate). A space was found for (Life’s A Gamble in the flight (from Waikato last Saturday when it was decided not to bring Lunar Haze south for 'the Guineas. Life’s A! Gamble’s travelling compan-! (ions included Teddy Doon, Bahrain, and Fantan.
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