Aegean Sea might keep race in family

Press, 8 January 1980, Page 15

Aegean Sea might keep race in family

By

J. J. BOYLE

Aegean Sea will make something of a family affair of the Reefton Club’s Inanga h u a Three-year-old Stakes if she triumphs in that $3OOO race tomorrow. ! Her elder sister, lonian Sea, won last year’s race for Mr Jack Thwaites and Peter Jones’s Riccarton stable not long before she was sold to the North Island. Aegean Sea will probably be racing at her best distance (1400 m in the Reefton race and she has fared better in the barrier draw than some of her best-performed rivals, especially Scotch ; Mist..

! Aegean Sea showed she) ;had done well since her third. in the Show Gate j Stakes at Washdyke by] sprinting fast in training on the trial grass yesterday. She reeled off 800 m in 48.65. Carl Sorensen, who rode Aegean Sea in her gallop yesterday, might also be the filly’s race rider tomorrow. Sorensen, who rode four winners while with the powerful Dave O’Sullivan stable at Matamata, is to try his luck at Riccarton. His is now attached to Peter Jones’s stable, and being able to ride at 48.5 kg he should not want for opportunities in the South Island.

Sorensen will also ride Ward Street for the Jones’s stable at Reeftbn. • Ward Street previously raced from the Laxon stable at Cambridge and has placed form.

Peter Jones hopes to fly Little Brown Jug north on Thursday of next week. His brilliant three-year-old freshened well after his fifth in the New Zealand Derby, and is now being prepared for the Wellington Stakes and the Wellington Derby at Trentham. The Takanini jockey, David Peake, has been engaged to ride Little Brown Jug in his Trentham engagements.