Peake staying at home

Press, 1 October 1979, Page 30

Peake staying at home

PA Auckland The Auckland jockey, David Peake, will not ride Pierree’s Order after all in the Metropolitan Handicap in Sydney today. This decision was reached after Peake spoke to the mare’s trainer, Mr W. C. Winder, and one of her owners Mr D. C. Lee, by telephone on Saturday night. Peake learned that Pierree’s Order had not been racing well on the hard tracks prevailing in Sydney and there was little likelihood of rain to soften the footing for today’s race.

“There is even doubt she will run,” said Peake yesterday. “If she does, it will probably be because they feel they have come so far. In view of the costs involved we have decided it’s just not worth it.”

After two months of the season Peake heads the jockey’s ladder with 17 wins, five more than Bob

Vance in second place. He needs only 11 more wins to reach a career tally of 1000.

NZPA reports from Sydney that the promising young stayer, Red Nose, turned in a sterling Metropolitan Handicap trial with his dogged win in the Cabochon Quality Handicap (2000 m at Randwick on Saturday. Red Nose had not won a race since the Canterbury Guineas last autumn but had shown plenty of promise at his last start, finishing fourth to In Luck in the Rosehill Cup earlier this month. Bookmakers reacted sharply to Red Nose’s win, installing him a 7-to-l equalthird favourite for the Metropolitan.

Saturday’s race was run at a solid pace which suited the son of Reindee- and when his jockey, Mark de Montfort, called on him for an effort, Red Nose responded gamely to win by a

length and a quarter from Big Skipper, which ran his best race for some time.

The Rosehill Cup winner, In Luck, fought on well for third a half neck further away but the solid pace he had set took its ‘oil over the last 100 m.

THE METROPOLITAN $100,500; 2600m. 1 2400 Ming Dynasty (3) K. Langby 60.5 2 1465 Salamander (1) 57.0 3 9030 Happy Union (5) R. Lang 56.5 4 8485 Stormy Rex (15) J. Marshall 55.0 5 829 Our Big Gamble (7) T. Autridge 54.0 6 6337 Dear John (14) R. Quinton 53.0 7 3592 Big Skipper (9) J. Thompson 52.0 8 2336 Grey Affair (8) P. Cuddihy 52.0 9 0737 Mr Bluebeard (11) M. Goreham 52.0 10 9340 Pierree's Order (6) 52.0 11 4241 Red Nose (10) M. de Montfort 52.0 12 842 Over The Ocean (2) 51.5 P. Cook 13 0113 Earthquake McGoon (22) 51-0 G. Willets 14 1301 French Command (13) B. Thomson 51.0 15 1923 Dancairo (20) A. Marney 50.5 16 3114 Iko (18) M. Johnston 50.5 17 1113 In Luck (24) J. Duggan 50.0 18 1200 Oh Really (1,7) E. Brown 49.5 19 0162 Fullback (19) N. Barker 49.0 20 1177 Marlborough <4) T. Duckett 49.0 21 5021 Lord Folkestone (12) W. Harris 48.0 22 8664 Rothschild (21) N. Voigt 47.5 24 2113 Romulus (161 G. Duffy 46.0 Scratched: Hawaiian Sun (23).