Jim Collect ends link with Row of Waves

Press, 10 November 1981, Page 40

Jim Collect ends link with Row of Waves

By

J. J. BOYLE

The rewarding partnership of the jockey, Jim Collett, and the three-year-old, Row of Waves, has ended. Collett will ride In Flight in the Canterbury Gold Cup at Riccarton tomorrow, and on learning that he had made the switch Peter Jones engaged the northern rider, John Hayes, for Row of Waves. “I had to learn second hand that Collett was not going to ride our colt,” Jones said yesterday. “As far as I knew earlier in the morning he was going to ride Row of Waves, and there was no quibble that he should put up a kilo overweight.

“Jim has been with Row of Waves all the way along the line, and I had every reason to believe he would be on him in the Canterbury Cup and then in the Southland Guineas,” Jones said yesterday.

“If he chooses to get off him in the Canterbury Cup he can find another ride in the Stonyhurst Handicap as well because he won’t be on our three-year-old Weinmeister,” Jones said.

Phillip Smith will be Collett’s substitute on Weinmeister, which ran seventh in the New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas and won over 1400 m at the Banks Peninsula meeting the time before. One of the first on the tracks yesterday was Altitude, brilliant winner of the New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas on Saturday, but he was there only for a canter in the middle.

“He is as fresh as paint — you wouldn’t think he had had a race,” Altitude’s trainer, Bill Ford, said yesterday morning. Altitude will be flown from Christchurch to Auckland tomorrow. He travels in an Argosy aircraft, which cannot land in Hamilton.

Yesterday’s galloping was done on the trial grass, which was 1 only deadened by Sunday’s and yesterday’s light morning rain. Northfleet and Lucky For Some appeared to be evenly matched while running 1200 m in Imiri 15s, the opening 600 m in a lively 36.25.

The Woodville stablemates, Orchidra and Trustturn, ran their 1400 m on terms in lmin 29.25, the opening 600 m in 375, and the 800 m in 49.25. Before there had been much traffic on the track, Our Silver reeled off 1400 m in lmin 28s, slowing after cutting out the opening 800 m in 48.25.

Darnley Flight picked up ground from the home turn to run .Dolmar to half a length finishing 1000 m in 61.45:

Bruce Compton will ride Darhley Flight in the Members- Handicap, second leg of tomorrow’s T.A.B. double.

Darnley Flight has a good record over the Riccarton 1400 m course. Spy Force, another Members Handicap hopeful, was allowed to run through the straight under a good hold. He was in from the 600 m in 40.65, but had started that sector slowly. Kildorian led King’s Robe by three-quarters of a length finishing 1200 m in lmin 15s, the last 800 m in 495. Haughty Look recorded lmin 19.25. Haddock joined him for the last 800 m in 52.25. Mon Anchor returned 49.2 s for 800 m. Star of David . follaved in 49.45, The Crofter in a leisurely -51.25, and River Mellay in an attractive 48.45. Valeri, a long-striding brother of the high-class mare, Polly Porter, finished 600 m keenly in 37.65.

Kusadas. outran Watese over 1000 m, finishing two lengths clear in lmin 3.45, the last 600 m in 39.6?.