Familiar pattern to Banks Pern, feature races

Press, 29 October 1984, Page 40

Familiar pattern to Banks Pern, feature races

By J. J. BOYLE Major races at the Banks Peninsula meeting on Saturday followed a fairly familiar South Island pattern — a win for one of the Noble Bijou tribe at a middle distance and a sprinting success for a reprsentative of Beaufort Sea. The seven-year-olds Julie’s Boy and Noble Jewel were Noble Bijou’s only runners in the Stevens Banks Peninsula Cup and they went close to making a quinella of the race. Julie’s Boy, under clever handling from Grant Davison, was a narrow but decisive .winner, and Noble Jewel ran an improved race for third, a length behind the runner-up, Reingard. Earlier, Beaufort Sea’s five-year-old daughter, Pendulyn, snatched a half head victory over Tirana in the Blooms Plate, first leg of the Banks Peninsula Racing Club’s T.A.B. double. And if that 1400 m race had any other feature it was the performance of General Beaufort, another of the Beaufort Seas, to J come storming home from last for fourth. Pendulyn, now winner of five races from 15 starts, will run for the Riccarton Thistoll stable in 1600 m races at the New Zealand Cup meeting, then might go after bigger game in the $200,000 Auckland Cup on January 1. Julie’s Boy will almost certainly be given an earlier opportunity to show how he handles 3200 m. He has been entered for the Chemico New Zealand Cup, and if he performs satisfactorily in his lead-up race on the second day of

the Riccarton carnival he will be given his chance over the long trip. Julie’s Boy is back on the winning list after only three Erevious starts from John ourne’s Riccarton stable. He is raced in partnership by Messrs Norman Davison, Bruce Fairbairn, and John Waterworth, and is the regular mount of Mr Davison’s son, Grant. In Saturday’s race Grant Davison banked everything on getting a run through the pack in the straight. He was thwarted at his first try,

then when a gap opened, Julie’s Boy “fell through the bridle.” “I had to gather him up again, and when I tried him again he responded and ran it out really well,” Grant Davison said later. “He was a more relaxed horse today, and he has to be a chance at the Cup distance now that he has learned to do that.” Julie’s Boy has some sturdy family influences for stamina. He descends from Differential, dam of Queen of Song, one of the best

staying mares of her time. For those looking to the younger brigade for signs of emerging talent on Saturday’s programme there was nothing more heartening than Orb’s win in the His Lordship’s Handicap.; He was bearing famous colours, those carried by Grey way for Peter South, and the ease and style of his win argued of ability which, when fully developed, could make him one of the three-

year-old successes of the, season. Orb showed signs of inexperience when romping along with an unassailable lead on Saturday, and Pat Corboy, who trains the Noble Bijou gelding for his wife and Mr South, feels that the tall bay will develop greater powers with another year on him. “The motor is there, but he has to develop a bit yet,” said Corboy, who also guided Grey Way through his famous career.