'L.B.J.' going north on Sunday

Press, 4 December 1979, Page 23

'L.B.J.' going north on Sunday

By J. J. BOYLE Little Brown Jug, the big attraction for the Canterbury Jockey Club's twilight meeting next Saturday, will be flown north on Sunday morning for his first campaign outside the South Island as a three-year-old. Unbeaten in seven starts

this season, Little Brown Jug will have his halfbrother Pompous Prince, for a travelling companion on the trip. Pompous Prince will run on the first day of the Avondale meeting on Wednesday of next week, and Little Brown Jug will go after the SIB,OOO Avondale Guineas on the following Saturday. Little Brown Jug’s Riccarton trainer, Peter Jones, said last evening that he expects the colt’s regular rider, “Tito” Poblete to be able to ride at scale weight of 51.5 kg in the Coruba Rum Stakes at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting. Poblete has ridden Little Brown Jug in all but one of his victories this season.

Brutus and Scotch Mist, good winners for Ray Harris’s Tuahiwi stable in the last few months, will spearhead a strong Canterbury invasion this week. They will be flown north tomorrow morning, and will run in feature races at the Te Aroha meeting on Saturday. Brutus will run in the Te Aroha Club’s 1600 m weigh t-for-age Thames Valley Stakes on Saturday, and Scotch Mist, winner of a sprint double at the Greymouth meeting, will attempt to improve a smart record at 1200 m in the Flying Handicap. The stable apprentice Gary Blair, will ride the stablemates, which will be in the care of Barbara Harris, who is now training in partnership with her husband.

All going well Brutus will run in the Avondale Cup, and Scotch Mist will go after The Concorde on the opening day of the Avondale meeting.

He will get more rich opportunities to show his prowess at 1200 m in the Newmarket and Railway Handicaps at the Auckland Cup meeting.