Chipper Hastings veteran back for another campaign
By J. J. BOYLE Three years ago Kanga's Lad (above) was brought south from Hastings to win against the sprinters at the Banks Peninsula meeting. Then at his next start he won the Jockey Club Handicap in distinguished company at Riccarton. Since then he has had a breakdown and a leg operation. but he was back at
Riccarton yesterday looking chipper, for all his nine years, in the care of of his trainer and part-owner, Tony Burridge. Burridge plans much the same programme as he did three years ago for his good money-spinner — a start
against the sprinters at Mo-. tukarara, then a campaign at the C.J.C. cup carnival. Burridge took Kanga’s Lad to Sydney in the autumn of 1979. with the Doncaster Handicap his main mission. He started the campaign promisingly with a fifth and - a third but he went wrong before the Doncaster. Last autumn Kanga’s Lad was operated on for the
removal of a bone chip, and his ■ recovery was delayed when he burst his stitches. • He has had two starts this time up. for a fifth at Rotorua and a close second at Masterton. With that kind of background he should pose a threat to the Canterbury sprinters in the first leg of the Banks Peninsula Racing Club’s T.A.B. double on Saturday.
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