Cool Cat to resume at Addington

Press, 11 July 1979, Page 21

Cool Cat to resume at Addington

Special correspondent Southland

The capable Southland trotter, Cool Cat, which graduated to the open class trotting ranks this season, has completed a month’s work with the Templeton trainer, Derek Jones, and is likely to resume racing from that stable at the National meeting at Addington next month. Cool Cat will be following] in the footsteps of her well-] performed dam, Flying] Maiden, which also won her] way into open class, winning the Worthy Queen] handicap at the 1965 New] Zealand Cup meeting. Flying! Maiden ran third in the Do-! minion Handicap three days ! later.

Cool Cat, it seems, will have a chance to emulate her dam when she contests the Worthy Queen Handicap and Dominion Handicap at this year’s carnival. Flying Maiden also gained her early education from the Otama owner-breeder Colin Baynes before racing in the top trotting races from Jones’s stable.

Cool Cat was bred by Baynes and has won nine races, gained 25 placings and won nearly $17,000 in stakes from his stable. A star three-year-old filly in a vintage crop two seasons back. Cool Cat has always looked open class material, now rising six years she has several more seasons of racing before retirement. This season, she set a I Southland record for a trott-

ing mare when she ran 4min 18.8 s for 3200 m on the Young Quinn Raceway at Wyndham in March.

Her best run against the top trotters this season was in the Dunedin Trotting Cup at Forbury Park, when she finished well from the back for third, behind Hano Direct and Santoza.

Her addition to the powerful Jones stable will give the experienced trainer a strong trio of squaregaiters to attack the main trotting events next term — Cool Cat, First Prize, and the recent Auckland winner, Beat The Gun. Jones trained another Southland-owned trotter, Beach Road, to win five times and gain 15 placings before his unfortunate death this season.