Ionian Sea sold to N.I.

Press, 4 April 1979, Page 20

Ionian Sea sold to N.I.

By J. J. BOYLE If I 11 | lonian Sea will be racingii for North Island interests; when she contests the North j Canterbury Racing Club's In-; glewood Stakes at Rangioraj: next Monday. j i Mr Jack Thwaites has soldi! lonian Sea to Mr G. E. T. ’ McLauchlan, of Ekatahuna, but the Beaufort Sea filly i will remain at Riccarton < until after Easier. I After she has raced at Rangiora she will be prepared ; for the Canterbury Jockey 1 Club’s Warstep Stakes, the <

final race in the Broadlands;l Series for three-year-old fill-;! lies this season. Mr Thwaites bred lonian!’ ;Sea from the Red Jester! 1 mare, Kalimefa. Ii In her second of three;; starts as a two-year-old 10-;1 nian Sea easily won the!; Canterbury Jockey Chib’s! i Welcome Stakes. This sea-| son she has won the Reefton!’ club’s Inangahua Three-Year- : Old Stakes, in which Brutus, i the favourite, finished third. The successful Gore horse- < man, Jim Collett, will ride lonian Sea and her two-year- I old sister, Aegean Sea, in i

their engagements at the North Canterbury meeting. lonian Sea galloped 8()0m with her stablemate, Dee Decree, on the outside of the) course proper at Riccarton yesterday. They recorded 535, about, average time on! ground that was cutting out in the straight. Salvaro did well to return 50.45, showing that she should be a strong contender in the second leg of the T.A.B. double at the North Canterbury meeting. Swift Leigh led Always by two lengths, finishing 800 m in 51.45, but Always picked

lup some ground in the straight. i Blue Sage and Sweet Brew 'lreturned 51.6 s and La Tigue ■land Dirk, under big weights. I were home from the 800 m in 51.85. ■ The Wadley-trained Shif|nal Rose and Gray John I sprinted from the 800 m in 53.55. Jolt ran his SOOm in 53.5 s and Anthos took 55.25. ! All Grey and Leonardo sprinted home in 525. Dee Cee ran 1800 m in 2min 8.65, the last 800 m ini 545.