Big plans for Dare

Press, 18 June 1986, Page 46

Big plans for Dare

By AAP correspondent MARK BLOEMGARTEN Sydney One of the finds in New Zealand racing this season is set to take Australia by storm in the spring. She is the four-year-old Dare, which her Hastings trainer, Davey Jones, said could contest some of the rich sprints and metric miles in Australia later this year. Jones had originally set the Three Legs mare for the $250,000 Elders Handicap (1400 m at Eagle Farm last month. But he gambled wrongly on a wet track and Dare stayed home. “We were disappointed when we found out the track was good as she would have run a mighty race with her light

weight,” Jones said from New Zealand. "I do not know if she would have beaten the winner, Daybreak Lover, but she is really tops up to 1600 m.” If Jones and Dare’s Okawa Stud owner, Mr Tom Lowry, decide to take on the best in Australia, punters will see an interesting challenge. The last time Jones brought a horse to Australia was in 1960 when he won the Adrian Knox Stakes (now the A.J.C. Oaks) with Pique. Dare has won six of nine starts. In her toughest test to date, Dare held on gamely for a halflength fourth to Atrapar in the $60,000 Japan New Zealand International Trophy (1600 m two starts back on April 19.