Take Care to race in U.S.

Press, 3 June 1982, Page 24

Take Care to race in U.S.

By

G. K. YULE

The highly?talented four-year-old mare, Take Care, has been sold to a New York buyer and. along with Ezechias and Treasurer, she will travel from Auckland to North America tomorrow.

Take Care will join the team of a trainer at Meadowlands and could be racing there in two months or so, according to Mr, Bob McArdle, of Christchurch, who completed negotiations for her purchase yesterday.

Mr McArdle returned from New York at the end of last week to attempt to purchase Take Care and the other two horses and he will accompany them when they are transported to their new owner.

Take Care has been purchased as much as a breeding proposition as for racing, said Mr McArdle. “There is such a concentration of the blood of Meadow Skipper and his sons throughout the breeding industry in North America that breeders are looking for outcrosses. The only places they can get them with sound pacing blood is in New Zealand or Australia,” said Mr McArdle.

Take Care showed ability far above average when first her Prebbleton trainer, Michael de Filippi, produced her last season for her Rakaia Gorge breeder, Mr Eric Mee.

Altogether she contested 32 races for 10 wins and 17 placings worth $46,280 in stakes, showing herself-to be

one of the best mares racing in New Zealand.

She is a daughter of El Patron.-whose oldest progeny are four, and she is the third of them to gain an open-class ranking, the other two being El Regale and Yvette Bromac.

Her dam, the unraced mare. Quick Feet, was got by Johnny Globe from Roistar, by U. Scott from Roydon Star, by Light Brigade. Quick Feet is also the dam of Lightning Bay and Rapid Man. She left one other foal after Take Care, a colt by Armbro Del, before she died in 1978. Treasurer won five races for Mr and Mrs Rex Gillman, of Rangiora, for whom he was trained by Jack Smolensk!. He won at his first start for this season, but his form since then was only fair.

Ezechias, formerly trained -at Cambridge by his partowner, John Butcher, was highly rated in the north this season when he gained five wins and nine placings from 16 starts.

He is a three-year-old gelding by Adover Rainbowfrom Deslea, a Sly Yankee mare from the same family as Delightful Lady and a host of other splendid winners.

Yvette Bromac has returned to New Zealand and she will be mated with Nat Lobell in the spring. She won eight races in New Zealand and four in Australia, where she recorded three class records. Her best time was a 2min 0.9 s rating for 2000 m.