Jonboy Hunt revels in West Coast mud

Press, 11 January 1983, Page 20

Jonboy Hunt revels in West Coast mud

From ROSS DIXON Hokitika A liking for West Coast mud saw the Washdyke galloper. Jonboy Hunt, score his second victory on the Hokitika track when he won yesterday’s Hokitika Cup, the first leg of the T.A.B. double at the Westland Racing Club’s meeting. Jonboy Hunt, a seven-year-old by Jekyll has now’won five races on the coast, all on heavy tracks. Jonboy Hunt, was splendidly ridden by Bruce Smith. The win gave the Canter-bury-based apprentice his first cup winner. Smith settled Jonboy Hunt in midfield on the outer until the turn. He said after the race that his mount seemed to be only battling half way through the race but was hitting out more freely by the home turn. The pacemaker, Aguirre, had slipped the field at the 400 m mark and appeared to have them in trouble at the

200 m but came to the end of his run in the last 50m. Jonboy Hunt was to have been ridden by Dianne Moseley but Melville Coles, Jonbo'y Hunt's trainer, was able to secure her only one ride. Moseley did not make the trip from the North Island. The win should now guarantee Jonboy Hunt a start in the Radio Scenicland Handicap at Omoto on Friday. It was a gallant effort by Jonboy Hunt, which will be a top chance at Omoto should the track remain heavy. Anonoma Mae went her best race for some time. She stormed down the outside for second. Firpo. which appeared, to have every chance, faded to third. Aguirre showed he could be returning to the form he showed last season and almost caused an upset. He was some four to five lengths clear at 400 m and was only pegged back close to the line. Julie’s Boy improved the splendid record of the progeny of the Dogger Bank

mare. Pawnee, at Hokitika when he won the DB Redwood Court Hotel Handicap yesterday. Julie's Boy. which won on the track last November, was handy throughout and fought on best, in the hands of Danny Frye, to win by half a length from Silver Shar. Pawnee’s earlier progeny for her Greymouth breeders. Messrs Jim and Arthur Barrow. included Mrs Ippi. by Fountainhead; Squaw Dance, by Country Dance; and Free Turn, by Native Turn. All won their first race at Hokitika, a feat unlikely to be equalled for a long time. Pawnee was sold some eighteen months ago. The Riccarton trainer, Hugh Thompson, wasted no time in saddling his second winner. Daedalus gave him his first as a trainer at Kumara on Saturday and yesterday he saddled the outsider, Mortar Board, to win the Tasman Liquor Mart Novice to give Danny Frye

another success. Mortar Board, a four-year-old by Honourary Degree from Ortanique raced by Mr Frank Mattson, was having his first start. The present circuit has been most rewarding for Frye. He rode his one hundredth winner at Reefton and won the feature races at Reefton and KumarA with Frontline. Maree Lyndon quickly made an impression on the Hokitika public when she rode the locally-owned Prove Away to win the William Pateman Novice. Lyndon had Prove Away, her first ride for the day, handily placed on the outer and after joining the pacemaker, Another Jet, at the 200 m fought on best to win, by a neck. Prove Away, owned by Hokitika stalwart, Mr Mick Keenan, is trained at Riccarton by Bill Beck. The four-year-old chestnut was placed at Hokitika in November and at his only start since ran an improver's fourth at Kumara on Saturday.