Cure wins Wrightson One Thousand Guineas

Press, 10 November 1986, Page 31

Cure wins Wrightson One Thousand Guineas

By

J. J. BOYLE

The thoroughgoing horseman that he is, Mr Tom Lowry saddled Cure for the Wrightson One Thousand Guineas at Riccarton on Saturday, then played a central role in the victory ceremony before bustling away to hear how his colour-bearer Dare ran in the Lion Red Stakes at Ellerslie. Dare was unplaced but Cure’s victory under famous colours in the first of the National classics was a handsome spring bonus for the man who guides the destinies of the historic Okawa Stud. Cure’s Matamata trainer, Dave O’Sullivan, was of a mind to bypass the One Thousand Guineas with the Six Tris-tram-Fix filly. “She’s big for her age,” Mr Lowry explained on Saturday, “and we thought it would be sensible not to prepare her for the spring races but it was decided to give her a start here because she has done so well in the last week or so.”

The One Thousand Guineas result was always safe for Cure from the time Grant Cooksley brought her forward from a trailing position to strike the front up the straight.

The favourite Tidal Light tried hard from wider out on the track to draw level, but Cure responded generously to stay clear and came out a top by a length and a quarter to land her second win from six starts.

Mr Tom Lowry races

Cure in partnership with his brother Pat, the president of the Taupo Racing Club, his sister Mrs Carroll Marie, and the estate of another sister, the late Mrs Anne Pinckney.

Cure was the first foal of Fix (by Shifnal) winner of three races at two years, and is a grand-

daughter of Key, winner of 16 races in the colours of the late Mr T. C. Lowry. Fix’s second foal, a colt by Three Legs, will be offered at' Trentham in January. Her third foal is a filly by Danzatore, and this year she is booked to Vice Regal.