Hurdle campaign for Owhata Son

Press, 30 April 1981, Page 26

Hurdle campaign for Owhata Son

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Duedin Owhata Son Is at Cambridge with his Win&tui trainer, John Dowtng, awaiting air transport’ to Melbourne. ' A sprint winner at the Otago meeting in February, Owhata Son is being aiqed at hurdle races ia telbourne. I The four-year-old , Bak Royal—Lady Deborah geding has yet to race offences but he has shorn much ability as a training. He qualified as a. hurdler a few months bact and recently earned his steeplechase ticket at a Bol 1 gar course. Nick Harnett, a former Wingatui hurdle jockey, is

expected to ride Owhata Son. Harnett is now based at Epsom, where Dowling will be quartered with Owhata Son, which he races in partnership, with Arthur and Robert Morris, of Deborah Bay. Dowling developed Bell Flight, which was taken to Melbourne by the Cambridge trainer Jack Winder, in 1979. Bell Flight, ridden by Harnett, won the Moonee Valley Steeplechase and Crisp Steeplechase then fell and broke a shoulder in the Grand National Steeplechase at Flemington and was destroyed. Dowling recently sold his property, “Gay Meadows,” .to Allie Robinson and he has -taken over the stables forInerly occupied, by Robinson.