Better lock this time for David Walsh

Press, 12 November 1981, Page 22

Better lock this time for David Walsh

By

W. R. CARSTON

The successful Awapunibased horseman, David Walsh, who had to settle for riding four minor placegetters on the first day of the meeting, kicked h,onie successive winners in two of the early supporting races at Riccarton yesterday. Walsh’s victories came on King’s Royal and Pink Note, stablemates prepared by Garth Ivil and Brian Ansley at Levin. King's Royal, a half-

brother to the good race mare Kindled, and also to Revellia, the runner-up to Beaufort Lass in the two-year-old event on the first day of the meeting, carries the colours of Ivil and Mr Arthur Warren, of Hamilton, who raced Kindled. Walsh had King’s Royal, a five-year-old by the Riccarton Stud’s sire, Double Speed, poised to challenge as they started on the run home in the Graduation Stakes and he ran the 1400 m strongly to

win going away by two and a half lengths. Pink Note was just as skilfully handled in the Ellesmere Handicap. Walsh brought him forward from a trailing position as they began the run home and he led through the last 500 m for a three-length victory. Pink Note, a four-year-old gelded son of Bellissimo and Grey Note, is raced by Ivil and his mother-in-law, Mrs I. J. Parker, of Masterton.