Riccarton winners for Wingatui

Press, 15 August 1984, Page 50

Riccarton winners for Wingatui

By

J. J. BOYLE

Carmichael and Pasqua, impressive winners of the maiden events for Riccarton stables on the second day of the Grant National meeting, will be two form runners for Canterbury at the Otago Racing club’s meeting on Friday.

Carmichael, an acceptor for the third leg of the T.A.B. treble, a 1200 m event, will be taken south tomorrow by his trainer, Murray McPhie.

His race rider will be Chris Johnson.

Carmichael was one of few tried at speed on a firm No. 1 grass at Riccarton yesterday. He recorded 48.45, and did his work well.

Carmichael is one of few sons of the glamour sire Sir Tristram in a South Island stable. His dam, Fair Frances (by Fair’s Fair), has also left another South Island winner in Our Silver.

Chris Johnson has also been engaged for Pasqua in the first leg of the Otago T.A.B. treble, in which one of his rivals will be the Grand National Steeplechase winner, Bymai. Pasqua is trained by Bevan Laming, who will have a second runner in Anbanda at Wingatui. A former northerner, Anbanda did nothing of any account in her one start, at 1600 m, at the Grant National meeting, but on her best form at a middle

distance she could be something of a chance in the Noble Car Handicap, first leg of the Otago Racing Club’s T.A.B. double.

The Riccarton trainer Neil Beri will take You Rang Sir, Zaneglenn, and Cellarmaster south for the Otago meeting. You Rang Sir won impressively for the stable in the Christchurch Hunt’s Haldon Plate, his final start as a two-year-old, and did not race at the Grand National meeting. Zaneglenn found 1400 m just beyond his best distance at the Riccarton winter carnival, buut came up with two fourths. He will be back at 1200 m on Friday, and his performance there might determine whether he will run, at Oamaru next Monday as well. Beri plans to have Zaneglenn gelded after the southern trip, and the four-year-old will then be spelled for the spring.