Imposing wins Stradbroke

Press, 18 June 1979, Page 23

Imposing wins Stradbroke

Brisbane The $102,000 Stradbroke Handicap (1400 m at Eagle Farm on Saturday was a triumph for the iSydney trainer, Torn Smith who .prepared the winner, Imposing •as well as the third horse. Jovlita. Imposing, beautifully ridden {by Peter Cook, skipped away •from the field with 300 m to go land scored by three-quarters of , a length from Gentle James with 'Joyita a long head away, third, j Never Despair was only a head away fourth. Smith, who has won most of Australia’s greatest classics, had previously won the Stradbroke with Kiisherry. Imposing received strong backing on the course and started the 13-to-2 joint-second I favourite with Stylee, which finlished fifth. I Imposing is jointly owned by J a Melbourne businessman, Mr Brian Fryer, and Lady Fisher, widow of the New Zealand :industrialist, Sir Woolf Fisher, i I Saturday’s win is expected to {change plans for an early retire|ment to the Ra-Ora Stud, and it is understood Imposing will conItest all the major Australian sprints next season. His next | mission will be the $120,600 Rothmans Hundred Thousand (1350 m at Doomben on July 7. The New Zealand jockey. Ron Franklin, who is in Brisbane to ride Kindled in today’s Brisbane Cup, rode the New Zealand-bred Erivari to victory in the First Chermside Novice.