Queen’s Pal to be aimed for Waikato Cup

Press, 27 September 1983, Page 24

Queen’s Pal to be aimed for Waikato Cup

By

J. J. BOYLE

North Island campaigns are planned for Queen’s Pal and Auditory, the first two place-getters in the Geraldine Racing Club’s South Island Thoroughbred Stakes at Orari yesterday. The Waikato Cup is on the programme for Queen’s Pal, which hardly had to draw a deep breath to win yesterday’s feature race for females. But before that race in late November, Mrs Florrie Griffin’s home-bred will be campaigned at the New Zealand Cup meeting. Queen’s Pal is now winner of 11 races for her

veteran Green Island breeder-owner, and the demands of yesterday’s event fresh up were easy for her.

A robust bay by the Riccarton Stud stallion, Palatable, Queen’s Pal is trained at Wingatui by Tony Prendergast. Queen’s Pal’s dam, Lomond Queen, showed prowess on the heaviest of tracks, and the challenge posed by the soft stuff on a bleak, wet day at Orari yesterday was easily surmounted by last season’s top South Island three-year-old filly. Russell McAra allowed Queen’s Pal to join Sea

Princess in the lead in the middle stages yesterday, and it was clear all of 600 m out that the Wingatui mare was having easily the better of her duel with last year’s South Island Thoroughbred Stakes winner.

Queen’s Pal kicked clear in a few strides, and it was only a question as to which of those behind her would play the role of bridesmaid. That position was comfortably filled by Auditory, which came from the back of a small field and beat the others easily for second. Auditory’s run pleased her Wingatui part-owner, and trainer, Brian Anderton, at a distance short of her

“She is a stronger mare this year, and we plan to take her to Trentham for middle distance races at the Wellington spring meeting,” Anderton said yesterday. Auditory will probably be mated during the spring with Tawfiq, the son of Blushing Groom, standing his first season alongside Noble Bijou at the Ander-ton-owned White Robe Lodge Stud. Sukerbelle gave Canterbury its only return out of the race by finishing third. She outfinished Pidgeon’s Blood, which, like the others, had her chance in a small field.