Master Mood’s stakes

Press, 6 March 1984, Page 29

Master Mood’s stakes

Special correspondent Invercargill

Master Mood, Nardinski and Malaz ensured that the $7500 New Zealand Kindergarten Stakes was a reenactment of the Timaru Nursery Stakes a week earlier when they provided the ' successful T.A.B. trifecta combination in Southland’s richest juvenile feature on Saturday. Master Mood, which boasts two close strains of the immortal U. Scott on his distaff side, powered home from three and four back on the outer to win with marked authority by two lengths from Nardinski, which set a solid pace and fought back commendably. Malaz, hampered by a bad second row draw, ran on pleasingly for third, four lengths away. Master Mood, which has now won four races, his last three on end, is raced by Kevin and Bonnie Williams, of Christchurch’, in partnership with Dunedin fruiterers, Steven and Frank Wong. The partners bred him by Noodlum from the Lordship mare, Moods, which they bought privately for $3600 from Mr Wayne Francis.

Kevin Williams said that he will campaign Master Mood in the north. He will travel to Auckland later this week for two valuable two-year-old races at the Auckland Trotting Club’s Derby meeting.

“If all went well with him, we would like to have a crack at that big $lOO,OOO Sires Produce Stakes at the Franklin meeting later in the season. That would be our main long-term mission at this stage,” Williams said.

Moods is bred three by two to U. Scott. Moods is by Lordship, which claims U. Scott as his maternal grandsire. Moods is out of the U. Scott mare, Smart Lass. Moods, which was unraced, is a sister to Smart Doll, a useful winner, and a halfsister to three winners, including Thurber Command (seven New Zealand wins), Shelley Paula (12 Victorian wins) and Smart Belle (a winner).