Good day for Murfitt stable

Press, 31 October 1983, Page 41

Good day for Murfitt stable

By

W. R. CARSTON

Riccarton’s “Mick” Murfitt, like most trainers, has his “highs” and “lows” in racing but when he does have a day in the former category there are no half measures. One of those days came at Motukarara on Saturday when three members of the Murfitt team, each carrying the colours of the trainer and his wife, contributed two wins and a second to the stable record. Super Spy dashed the hopes of all but two patrons trying for the Banks Peninsula Racing Club’s oncourse treble when he started a fresh campaign with a decisive victory in the Canterbury and Westland Racing Owners and Trainers’ Maiden No. 1. The two supporters of this 19-to-one shot in the second

leg of the course treble did not have to go any further. They pooled their tickets and each received a dividend of $2139.95. The second member of the team to “help pay the rent” was Spy Force. After his lack-lustre fresh-up run at Rangiora last Monday, he too, was at generous odds when he chased Sporting Show home in the Blooms Plate When Dainty Dish lined up for her first race since May in the Super Liquor Man Handicap patrons caught onto the idea that all of the Murfitt team were in race-winning trim. The Palatable mare duly obliged but the odds for her were under the double-figure mark. Dainty Dish and her halfbrother, Super Spy, were both ridden by the stable apprentice, Paul Atkinson.