Australian entry for Brandon series?
A trip to Christchurch next month to oppose the best New Zealand three-year-olds in the $300,000 John Brandon Series at Addington Raceway is under consideration for Alpine Fella. Trained at Kilmore by Bob Knight he was a runaway winner by 22m at Moonee Valley recently, rating 2min 1.7 s for a mobile 2380 m.
A week earlier he was an easy winner at Kilmore when making his debut in Australia. Vin Knight, who drove the gelding, rates him the equal of his top-ranked
colt, Smooth Falcon, winner of the Victorian Derby recently, and thinks he will improve even more than that classic winner in the next few months. Alpine Fella, which paced his last 800 m in 57.9 s in his latest win, had two starts for Trevor Allingham, of Pukekohe, who raced him in partnership with his wife. He won at his second attempt in the Morrinsville Juvenile Stakes before being sold to Australasian Bloodstock and Racing last March. He was then syndicated for $lOO,OOO. His race career was
interrupted by a number of setbacks, the major one being a dislocated shoulder.
Alpine Fella is by Smooth Fella from Alpine Meadow, the dam also of Without Fear, Meadow Robyn and Tudor King.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19860221.2.115.3
Bibliographic details
Press, 21 February 1986, Page 23
Word Count
208Australian entry for Brandon series? Press, 21 February 1986, Page 23
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Copyright in all Footrot Flats cartoons is owned by Diogenes Designs Ltd. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise these cartoons and make them available online as part of this digitised version of the Press. You can search, browse, and print Footrot Flats cartoons for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Diogenes Designs Ltd for any other use.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.