Two Wingatui jockeys off to Queensland

Press, 13 June 1984, Page 36

Two Wingatui jockeys off to Queensland

Special correspondent Dunedin The Wingatui jockeys, Ali Robinson and Paul Richards, will be riding in Queensland in the next few weeks.

Robinson flys to Brisbane today to continue his association with The Dimple, which begins an Australian campaign on Saturday. It will be Robinson’s first experience of riding in Australia.

The Dimple and The Wink are being campaigned in Queensland by the Dennis brothers, of Woodlands.

Robinson will be away indefinitely. “It depends on how the horses go,” he said. The Dimple and The Wink travelled to Australia on May 30 and the Dennis brothers expect to be away from home for three months.

Robinson has wound down his stable operation at Wingatui. Courier Flight, which has raced well in recent

weeks, has been eased in his work.

Robinson has lost his stable foreman, Barry Nicholls, who has taken fulltime employment in the hotel industry.

Richards leaves at the end of June for a threemonth working holiday in Queensland. He will be accompanied by the Wingatui trainer, Bruce Muldrew. They will be based at McKay, where Muldrew has employment. Richards will take riding opportunities if they arise. The trip is a result of an invitation from Dave Newman, a former New Zealander in McKay who visited Wingatui.

Robinson. Richards and Muldrew will join a long line of Otago racing identities to visit Queensland this winter. Trainers Brian Anderton and Mick Didham and their wives, Lorraine and Marion, are at present in Brisbane. The ownertrainers, Marion and Drew

Stevenson, and the ownerbreeder Lindsay Young and wife, Helen, are others.

The Feilding jockey, David Walsh, has been engaged for Soaring High, General Beaufort, and Lady Anvil at Oamaru next Tuesday. Walsh, with 86 wins, is trailing Garry Phillips by five on the jockeys' premiership.

Noble Jewel is on his way home to Wingatui from the North Island after having his programme interrupted bv a stone bruise.

'The Wingatui trainer, Graeme Mee, expressed satisfaction with Danseuse Etoile after riding her in work at Wingatui yesterday morning. It was her first serious run since she suffered leg injuries in the starting gates at Gore three weeks ago.

Jim Collett has taken the mount on Danseuse Etoile at Oamaru. He will ride Cee Low in the first leg of the T.A.B. double there.