Second Geraldine Cup success for Candyboy

Press, 23 September 1980, Page 22

Second Geraldine Cup success for Candyboy

Candyboy turned in a remarkable performance to win his second Geraldine Cup at Orari yesterday. He Won his first Geraldine Cup and another major middledistance race on the course fori his Dunedin owner, Mr Cecil Wallis, as a five-year-old in. the spring of the 1977-78. season. Yesterday the eight-year-old entire son of Sucaryl and Moy was going for the nineteenth victory of' .his career and the $2275 he earned for first took . his career earnings beyond the $60,000 mark, a lucrative return for the $4OOO he cost as a yearling. Jim . Pankhurst, who has prepared Candyboy throughout his career and is his regular rider as well, settled the horse in mid-field in yesterday’s race but he was shuffled back to last as rivals improved around the outer in a tightly packed field on the home turn. As they straightened for the run home and Good Way dashed clear Candyboy was last on the inside. Pankhurst had to ease him back half a length and almost steer him sideways to get into the clear but once he saw daylight he accelerated brilliantly and sped to the lead 50m out. Candyboy, which had been off the winning list since the Amberley Cup at Rangi-

ora in May, won by two lengths from Good Way and Sweeney Todd, which received the run of the race behind Babbilla and Te Tangata to the straight, was third in a similar gap. Silverbay, three wide in the second line from the 800 m peg to the straight, was three parts of a length back, fourth. He saved that place by a neck from Master Lea, the early tail-ender. The Geraldine Cup was

the first leg of the. T.A.B. treble. The second leg, the Second Ohapi Stakes, went to Bouvet, an attractive Grey Gull colt prepared b> Rex Cochrane at Gore, ant for good measure Candyboy’s stablemate, King Kaka, took his record to three wins from only three starts for the Wallis-Pankhurst combination with a runaway victory in the third leg, the Strathconan Stud Handicap. The on-course treble, in which Brown Dancer, Ward

J. Street and Silva Ruler come bined successfully, was it worth $114.70. e Ward Street and Silva y Ruler are both Riccartond trained but Brown Dancer i- was the first of two winners i, saddled by Lionel Pratt and e trained on the course. The :s Pratt stable was also repreit sented successfully by Royal y Mimic, which capped off a e lengthy string of minor placn ings with a victory in the d First Ohapi