Auditory one of four winners for Collett

Press, 13 December 1982, Page 38

Auditory one of four winners for Collett

Special correspondent. Dunedin Auditory's win in the Tapanui Cup on Saturdaycarried the stamp of excellence. and she will now engage attention for the Dunedin and Invercargill Cups. Her win continued a fine innings for Jim Collett, the Gore jockey. He rode four winners at Tapanui. which took his tally to 12 over the previous eight days, and 30 for the season. Collett had not previouslywon the Tapanui Cup in five attempts since he began race riding in 1975. Brian Anderton, who trains Auditory with Graeme Offen and races the mare with his wife. Lorraine, won the race as a rider on Master Key (1952). Treasure Pond (1957). and The Era (1960). Auditory has the Dunedin Cup as her immediate mission. and a start for her on the first day of the Otago

meeting this week will depend on how she comes through Saturday's race. The Andertons have a brother to Auditory (Noble Bijou-Attentive) in the national sale next month. He is one of six yearlings being prepared by the White Robe Stud for the Trentham sale. Auditorv was back in the field until the 800 m when she improved to the second line. She went clear at the 350 m and won by four and a quarter lengths, revelling in the rain-affected ground. Nottingham Note completed a T.A.B. double with a family flavour when she came from well off the pace early to win the West Otago Handicap. Nottingham Note is trained at Gore by Jim Collett's father. Don. who races the mare with his wife. Dorothy. Both the Tapanui Cup and West Otago Handicaps carried free stallion services as part of the prize to the

winner. The Tapanui Cup had a service to Royal Randwick, which stands at the Collett's Nottingham Park Stud. The West Otago had a service to Down The Aisle, which stands in Southland. Don Collett remarked on Saturday that Nottingham

Note, which had been returned to him after racing unsuccessfully on lease, had now won seven races. Her dam. Credit Note, an Australian-bred mare by Minuit from Double Entry, has also produced Royal Jelly, a winner in Singapore. Credit Note is due to foal to Catastroohe.