Australian races next on Jambeau’s list

Press, 9 August 1982, Page 32

Australian races next on Jambeau’s list

By

J. J. BOYLE

Jambeau, a courageous second to Magellan in the Winter Cup at Riccarton on Saturday, is unlikely to race again in New Zealand before he is flown to Melbourne, pointed for rich races like the Caulfield Cup. Magellan had to run a race record bf Imin 37.73 s to beat Jambeau by three parts of a length in the Canterbury Jockey Club’s historic race on Saturday. ' From almost as far out as the 600 m they had turned a many-sided -contest into a . two-way. struggle, interest being sustained while Jambeau tried to get to grips with the Riccarton speedster. Jambeau steadily closed out the daylight between them with his rails challenge, but Magellan kept, the long-striding bay out by three parts of a length so becoming the first Riccar-ton-trained winner since His

Lordship's year, 1970.

Mrs Helen Preston, who •trains Magellan for Messrs Murray and Noel Watson, has not decided yet on her five-year-old’s spring programme. However, Jambeau is still on a count-down for the Melbourne spring carnival, and the Caulfield Cup will almost certainly be- on his programme. “He needs more ground. He gets his head down like a stayer and lopes along, and we will be looking. for a 2000 m race for him when Roger Lang gets him settled in Melbourne about the end of the month,” Jambeau’s Hamilton part-owner, Mr Bill Gilmore, said after Saturday’s race. Jambeau’s potential as a middle-distance runner also impressed itself on his rider, Peter Tims. “He’s more of a stayer. He went a good race for a Class 3 horse and

should do well in Aussie in the spring,” Tims said. Tims thought he had it won at the top of the straight. "The other horse didn’t give it away, but neither did he." The Chilean Tito Poblete, who partnered Magellan for. his Brabazon Handicap-' Winter Cup double, said he. was given a ready response for every demand he made on the Adios II gelding on Saturday. “He was sharp, and keen this time, and I was confident he would last it out when we got to the front,” Poblete said. “Last week he did not feel as strong — perhaps he improved with the race.” .

Magellan has now.’ been joined in the Helen . Preston stable by his three-year-old half-brother by Sea Anchor, and he will be raced on lease by the Watson brothers. “He's enormous, and I don’t

think he will be at the races for 12 months,” Mrs Preston said on Saturday. A late charge from far back in the field gave Deltello third in the Winter Cup, but she was five lengths from the runner-up and had' Royal Meg close by. The Awapuni-trained Sovereign’s Ace ran out bf racing room at a vital stage and wound up fifth. “He just couldn’t get a go, and we’re all very disappointed,” said his rider, Maree Lyndon.

“He can really ping him home when you pull him out for a run. He ran Imin 34s for 1600 m at Otaki one day, and you have to be pretty good to do that, as it’s a sandy type of track.” ■ Just A Rebel, Riccarton's second runner in the race, came in sixth, a race that will be held in some regard on his way to his return to something more like his best distance of 2000 m or thereabouts.