Jilaire’s Chance to visit Smooth Fella

Press, 13 June 1984, Page 36

Jilaire’s Chance to visit Smooth Fella

By

JEFF SCOTT

The Cup Class racemare, Jilaire’s Chance, the winner of 12 of her 62 starts for $60,185 in stakes, has been retired from racing and will be served by Smooth Fella this spring. After injuring a knee on the eve of the 1983 InterDominion series in Auckland when trained at Cambridge by John Langdon, Jilaire’s Chance returned south to Derek Jones’s Templeton team this season for nine starts before a broken pedal bone in late February ended her racing career.

The rising eight-year-old daughter of Majestic Chance and Miss Jilaire showed her class when she won the $lO,OOO 3ZB Mobile Free-For-All at Addington in January, pacing a fast 3min 16.5 s (2min 1.7 s mile rate) for the 2600 m, while she was third to Bonnie’s Chance and Hilarious Guest in the Standardbred Breeders’ Stakes and a luckless fifth in Enterprise’s Auckland Cup. Her Central Otago breeder-owner, Mr George Hamilton, has Nardaire, a five-year-old half-sister by Nardin’s Byrd to Jilaire’s Chance and Jilaire Bogart (lmin 57.3 s in North America), in work with Jones. She makes her debut from the stable in the Nelson meeting on Friday.

Jester Chance is another newcomer to the Jones team which contests the Caltex Gold Cup on Friday. The Majestic Chance gelding joined the stable after finishing seventh in the D.B. Rangiora Cup last Satur-

day. Rosewood Birch and Torque have been transferred to the Pukekohe stable of Jack and Brian Hughes. The right-handed northern tracks are expected to suit Torque, which has not lived up to his early potential in the south. Netherby Gee, which won a double for the stable at Hutt Park at Queen’s Birthday week-end, has been transferred to Bob Mitchell’s Cambridge team.

The stable's two stars, Hands Down and Tussle again head the Soangetaha Lodge team for the new season.

Hands Down, rising nine, had a month off after finishing fourth in Norton’s Easter Cup in April and completed his first hoppled work-out in a new campaign yesterday morning. Jones is undecided whether he will start Hands Down at this year’s National meeting in August, where he would be trying for his fifth straight Louisson Handicap win. “It depends what sort of handicap he gets, but I’m not that worried about it, our main aim of course, being the Cup,” Jones said.

Hands Down was handicapped on 40m when he won the Steinlager Handicap, (C 8 and faster) at Addington in April, and the Louisson carries similar conditions.

The 1980 New Zealand Cup winner again toiled honestly this season, starting 16 times for four wins and three placings worth $33,810 in stakes.

The open class trotter, Tussle, was another fine earner for the leading South Island trainer this term,

winning $33,225 in New Zealand and finishing third in the Inter-Dominion Trotters' Grand Final in Adelaide.

In New Zealand, she was fourth in the Rowe Cup and fifth in the Dominion Handicap, the two principal events for her gait. The Tuft mare is due back next week after spelling for a month.

Others in work or which are due back shortly include: Sharadel, Canto Boy, Royal Captain, Jake the Fake, Happy Rose, Brother’s Pride, Try Again, Holy Mackerel, and Del’s Chick (a rising three-year-old sister to Hands Down). Premiership, which won five this season is due back about the middle of next month, while Cathy Crockett, is having a month off.

Those to hav° been turned out include Cilla’s Pride, Monte Neptune, Scotty Del, Willie Duggan, Be Game, Icenic, Watbro Cloud, and Para’s Star.

A fresh start may be made with Portfolio at the end of the year. The Noodlum entire broke a pedal bone when racing from the Hughes stable at Pukekohe in January and he has returned south to his owner’s property at Kurow. Yearlings being tried include fillies by Out to Win from Madam Faye (a sister to Born to Win); and by Great Evander from Beat the Gun, the winner of six trotting races from the Jones team and a daughter of Dispense, another good winner from the stable.

Urbane, a placed maiden from the stable earlier this season, has been sold to Australian interests.