Stable quinella in Blenheim first leg

Press, 24 April 1980, Page 2 (Supplement)

Stable quinella in Blenheim first leg

From

W. R. CARSTON,

Blenheim

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The successful Otaki trainer, Clem Bowry, saddled two runners for the Turuturu Lodge Handicap at Blenheim yesterday and both came up with peak runs to quinella the race.

Brazen Princess rah the 2000 m out slightly better than her stablemate and this gave the six-year-old Zamazaan mare an unbeaten record at the meeting. She ha 1 carried the colours of her Palmerston North owners, Bill and Ngaire Shaw, to victory in the Marlborough Cup on the first day. As on Saturday, the Riccartbn horseman, Phillip Smith, - secured the perfect run for Brazen Princess. She was one off the fence and three places back in the early running and was tracking Star Piper, which was sharing the leading line with

Kaitoa and Sungold, as they made the home turn. Smith worked Brazen Princess into the clear early in the run home and she mastered Kaitoa about 100 m out then managed to cope with a determined late bid from Bellona, which came fast from mid-field for her placing. A long-neck separated the stablemates then there was a length and a half to Kaitoa, which battled gamely after tryng for an all-the-way win. He lasted for third by a half a head in advance of Sungold. Ernest, third on the inner till the home turn, shaded Father Lou for ' fifth and the rest were led in by Galios, which made ground late from the back. The Turuturu Lodge Handicap was the first leg of the T.A.B. double and Shiftease made it Marlborough Cup day all over again with another all-the-way win

in the second leg, the Coruba Handicap. Young Peter Tims, who is apprenticed to Shiftease’s Te Rapa trainer, Graham Rogerson, kicked the Shifnal five-year-old clear from the start and although he was beginning to shorten stride in the closing stages he lasted it out gamely to win by half a length from Septimus, which had led the chase after him all the way. Shiftease’s win gave Tims the apprentice jockeys’ prize for the meeting and his boss the trainers’ prize, their respective points being 15 and 24 There was a second prize for trainer. This went to the Levin father and son combination of Lloyd and George Tyree, with 15 points. There was a tougher struggle for the jockeys’ prize, with David Wash, with 12 points, beating Phillip Smith by one point.