Racing and trotting Otago triumph likely in Stakes

Press, 30 December 1978, Page 16

Racing and trotting Otago triumph likely in Stakes

By

J. J. BOYLE

Appropriately enough, it should be Otago’s day in the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s Show Gate Stakes at Washdyke today.

The combined efforts of: the Wingatui pair, Tui’s I Lass and Lady Mahal, I should have a big bearing on the result of the $BOOO feature race, which perpetuates the name of the most famous of Otago race mares. Tui’s Lass is prepa d by 11 the veteran Stan McKav, i who has a stable full of form horses, four of which i won on the opening day of the Dunedin Cup meeting a week ago. j Tui’s Lass, a half-sister ofj the James Hazlett Stakes I winner, Loma Lass, could!’ not extend the stable record] when she ran against the i sprinters at Wingatui on i 1

[Tuesday, but there was a lot; ito like” about her run for fifth. Tui’s Lass was the South Island’s best when third! behind Tang and Springtide: in the New Zealand One; Thousand Guineas. Lady] Mahal was fifth in that '•lassie. but half a length better than Tui’s Lass when third in rhe Southland Guineas. It most expectations are realised Riccarton’s lonian Sea and the Southland filly, i The Clippie, will supply stif- ] fest opposition for the Wingatui pair. lonian Sea, luckless in the I 'running in her race on the] I first day c' the meeting,'

t;was a respectable sixth in! ■(the New Zealand One Thou-] [sand Guineas. i! The Dennis brothers’ The IjClippie is something of a ([stand-in for her stablemate, : The Twinkle, a talented filly '[sidelined with a leg injury. The Clippie is a recent ■graduate from maidens, i extending a lengthy list of successful colour-bearers for ; the Dennis family. i Lord Hymac and Golden , Gate appear to supply the • strength in the field for the Gordon’s Handicap, first leg iof the T.A.B. double, and ! Colfix, might ; -.ord a popular victory in the second leg, J the Parris Memorial.