Yir Tiz’s rider has Melbourne mount
The North Island jockey, ]< Warwick Robinson who will ) be at Flemington tomorrow!) to ride Karu in the Mel-: bourne Cup, partnered thejl Te Rapa-trained filly, Yir!; Tiz, when she outclassed the(
(other two-year-olds in the; Canterbury Jockey Club’s Pioneer Handicap on Saturday. Yir Tiz won running away :by seven lengths. Yet Robinson was convinced that this I young flyer will improve!
!’further when she loses herj ; greenness. j “I had to give her a crack!' to keep her mind on the ' job.” Robinson said after!. • Saturday’s race, which gave! > Yir Tiz her fourth succes-ii ilsive win. |]
, The ease of Yir Tiz’s win on Saturday, when she was ! conceding from skg to B.skg i ; leaves the filly with a ; istrangelhoid on the Wel- . comes. Stakes on the final 1 ■ day of the meeting on New 1 (Zealand Cup day.
Yir Tiz is trained at Tei Rapa by Graeme Rogerson,! who bought her at auction! and sold her to Mrs Helen; Anderson, Messrs Bill Chap-i lin, Brian Weal, and Bob; Hewitt. Yir Tiz is by Bismark 11, winner of three races and sire of the high-class performer. Vice Regal. Dreamy Jeannie, dam of Yir Tiz, is by Gold Sover-j eign from Cameroon by; Marco Polo 11. Amyl, the North Island’s! only other runner in the Pio-! neer Handicap, saved second 1 by a nose from Sashmo, an, attractive Grey Gull colt! from the Stan McKay stable at Wingatui. Bouvet, from Gore, was: fourth in a gap of four lengths behind Sashmo. ,
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