International apprentices’ meeting at Te Awamutu

Press, 26 August 1986, Page 27

International apprentices’ meeting at Te Awamutu

By w. R. CARSTON Trudy Archer has been invited’ to ride at the Waipa Racing Club’s International Invitation Apprentices’ meeting at Te Awamutu on Friday. The Cambridge-based apprentice has been selected to replace Chris Otto, who had the misfortune to fracture a leg in a fall at the Cambridge trials last Thursday week. Archer, who is apprenticed to her father, Clarrie, is being sponsored by the Te Awamutu Club and will represent the Waikato District’s Te Rapa Apprentices’ School. To date Archer has ridden 41 winners, including six over country. There have been no other changes from the original list of 16 invited apprentices, five from overseas and the balance from the various racing districts “at home,” according to the club’s secretary-manager, Mr E. B. Thomson.

Kazuhiro Yamada will represent the Japan Racing Association, Tokyo. This 19-year-old, who is apprenticed to Masanao Tsubo at the Ritto Train-

ing Centre, Shiga, began riding in March of last year and with 29 winners, at June 10, this year, is leading apprentice for both East and West Japan and was ranked eighth on the jockey’s premiership. The Malayan Racing Association, Singapore, will be represented by Ismail Ismadi. Formerly apprenticed to David Tan Lye Hup, at Penang, the 24-year-old Ismadi has, since April last year, been apprenticed to the wellknown Penang trainer, Teh Choon Beng.

Last season Ismadi rode 55 winners and was the runner-up to the New Zealand jockey, Nigel Tiley, in the jockey’s premiership. Tiley’s tally for the season was 57 winners.

The three Australian apprentices riding in the series will be Gus Philpot, Michael Zarb and Rodney Griffiths.

Philpot will represent the Queensland Turf Club, Brisbane. This 20-year-old, who is apprenticed to Bill Whelow, at Hendra, has ridden 95 winners of which 38 have been on metropolitan courses.

Zarb, who is currently Dux of the Australian Jockey Club school for apprentices, is indentured to B. Horan, at Rosehill. To date he has ridden 80 winners, 34 of them, in the metropolitan area. Griffiths, who will represent the Victoria Racing Club, Melbourne, and is apprenticed to K. L. Newman, has ridden 54 of his 127 winners in the metropolitan area. The New Zealand apprentices, with the district apprentice school they will represent in parentheses, who will be competing in the series are: Shane Treweek (Auckland), Michael Coleman (Matamata), Daryl Bradley (Taranaki), Mark Heaney (Hawke’s Bay), Eddie Lamb (Awapuni), Tony Allan (Wellington), Jan Cameron (Canterbury), Gary Taylor (Washdyke), Chris Bain (Wingatui), and Maria Ritchie (Southland).

The two events in which the apprentices will compete on Friday will be the T.H.C. Waitomo Resort Handicap, 1400 m, and the 8.0. P. Fertiliser International Handicap, 1600 m.