Theorists will have divided loyalties at Rangiora

Press, 9 April 1981, Page 26

Theorists will have divided loyalties at Rangiora

By

J. J. BOYLE

Devotees of the horses-for-courses theory will be divided in their allegiences for the first leg of the North Canterbury Racing Club’s T.A.B. double at Rangiora on Monday. Both Aramis and Pennianne opened their winning records at Rangiora. Aramis against the two-year-olds at the corresponding meeting three years ago, and Pennianne in the Swannanoa Maiden a year later. Aramis was back at Rangiora as a three-year-old to beat Brutus narrowly and the

others decisively in the Canterbury Stakes, for three-year-olds, and reappeared there a year later to win the North Canterbury Cup. Pennianne won the Oxford Handicap, the race for apprentice riders at the North Canterbury meeting last season. ‘ Gary Blair has been engaged to ride Pennianne and Jim Collett has been engaged for Aramis in Monday’s race. Collett has also been engaged for Aramis’s stablemates, Fair Rosamond, Mirtoan Sea, Third Degree, and the two-year-old, Primate, at

the North Canterbury meet, ing. The North Island horse, men, David Walsh, Phillip Smith, Peter Tims, and Barrj Dowling, will come south fot the North Canterbury meett ing. Dowling’s mounts include Dellana, Fern Bay, Retep, Last Surge, His Advice, and Indigod. Smith has been engaged for Peligro in the Kaiapoj Handicap, second leg of th? T.A.B. double, and Walsh's line-up will include Kelly Robe, Uncle Tom, Rich Alloy, Sharlanza and Orcadian Lad (