Our Flight resumes at Foxton tomorrow

Press, 19 August 1983, Page 25

Our Flight resumes at Foxton tomorrow

Special correspondent Wellington The reappearance of the mare, Our Flight, in the Robinson Handicap will be of much interest when the Foxton Racing Club stages its spring meeting tomorrow. Our Flight will step out in the second leg the T.A.B. double, a race over 1200 m, and a pretty strong sprint can be expected from her. Whether it will be enough for her to win remains to be seen for she will have a number of pacy opponents. Last season Our Flight

was the top filly on the Free Handicap. She won the New Zealand Derby and over $200,000, a record in New Zealand for a three-year-old. The filly's last New Zealand start was a fifth in the 2ZB mile at Trentham in March, but then in a short Australian campaign she failed to flatter at all. Our Flight is now in a “new” stable. Up to and including her Australian visit she had been trained at Levin by Errol Skelton.

She is now with her owner, Jim Rusher, of

Awapuni, who has set up as a public trainer, and from all accounts the mare will parade in pretty good condition. Formality always sprints well, likes the course and could go out favourite for the race, while Gold Ore is always capable of a good run. Master Grey, from Trentham, is having his first race since March, 1982. Now eight, he quite badly injured a knee in a race fall and this will be a big test for him. He could run well. The first leg of the double

is the Stevens Bremner Handicap, in which the Wellington Cup winner, Kiwi, and the grand mare, Daisy, both resume. Both are bound for the $310,000 Melbourne Cup in the spring, and Daisy, in particular, could run a strong race fresh. The form runners are Tredici, which has not raced since being beaten when favourite at Te Rapa late last season, Irish Charger and Cuss. Three Waves steps up a class, but could take some beating in a field that on paper is not strong.