Reassuring news for Christchurch owner

Press, 13 December 1985, Page 22

Reassuring news for Christchurch owner

By W. R. CARSTON When Courier Bay “bolted in” in the Cubacade Maiden at Wanganui on Tuesday that news was very reassuring for one Christchurch owner. Mr Allan Gower does not have an interest in Courier Bay, whose race debut resulted in a sevenlength victory, but he recently purchased a younger half-sister to the Diplomatic Agent three-year-old from the gelding’s Inglewood owner-trainer, Mr G. A. White.

Mr Gower now reckons

he might have got a bargain when he outlaid $4500 to secure the two-year-old daughter of March Legend and Bay Ruth after she, like Courier Bay, had shown winning form at the Waverley trials. Mr Gower has already had “nibbles” from interested parties to sell his recently acquired youngster but none have been tempting enough yet, so the filly, which descends from the same family as the wellperformed Diplomante, has been put into training. She

entered the Amberley stable of John Parsons last Monday.

Mr Gower is no newcomer on the racing scene. When based at Invercargill in the 19705, as part-owner and trainer, he guided Montana Girl through a successful race career. One of his more recent purchases was Secured Deposit’s halfbrother, Secured Money, which was later syndicated and now races from Barry Taggart’s Riccarton stable.