Plucky run by Fireglow

Press, 31 March 1981, Page 24

Plucky run by Fireglow

From

J. J. BOYLE

Nelson The Riccarton veteran, Bob Register, who rode . Pedantic to win the first hurdle race staged by the Nelson Jockey Club soon after the end ’of the second World War, was back at Richmond yesterday to see his home-bred Fireglow win her first race.

“I found Pedantic’s race easier to remember because he won -it by about a mile and a half and I was back in the stand before some of the others finished,” Register recalled yesterday. “They were a pretty rough lot of hurdlers against us and they kept <_ refusing at the first fence.”

Fireglow won the Second Kirbey’s Maiden Stakes yesterday in the colours of Mrs Register. She . got up with a plucky rails run, going away for a length victory after appearing to be

well behind the bit 600 m out.

Fireglow is a two-year old by Gilded God, which was imported by Mr Roger Swolf, along with Godavari, for his Rogola Stud, at Templeton. Like Godavari, Gilded God had scant patronage in Canterbury and he is now standing with My Brown Jug’s - sire at the Elms Stud in Gundaroo, New South Wales.

Mr Swolf still owns both stallions but they are held on lease in Australia.