Il Commandante with Joe Bromby

Press, 21 November 1986, Page 21

Il Commandante with Joe Bromby

Special correspondent Dunedin Il Commandante has been placed with Joe Bromby at Cambridge after returning to New Zealand from Australia on Sunday. Il Commandante’s best effort in an Australian campaign with Wingatui trainer Arthur Didham, was a second at Geelong. Tane Belsham, who accompanied II Commandante, has remained in Sydney. Bromby prepares Noble Jeune for IL Commandante’s Sydney owner, Albert Meo. Noble Jeuneis a four-year-old gelding by Noble Bijou from the speedy Ma Jeune and he was a maiden winner at Te Rapa last month. Noble Jeune was bred by Ivy Didham and sold priv-

Berber is back in the Didham stable. The big grey has been gelded and he is showing no sign of the soreness which bothered him during the winter.

The Thief returned home with Wingatui owner-trainer Di Bowbyes after the N.Z. Cup meeting.

There is apparently nothing amiss with Double Lang, which failed in the Canterbury Gold Cup on Saturday. He will probably return to Riccarton on December 12 and the $lOO,OOO Manawatu Cup on Boxing Day is his likely holiday assignment. Bi Noble has progressed well since finishing ninth in the N.Z. Cup after striking the running rail early and pulling hard, but he is unlikely to pursue his Auckland Cup nomination.

‘‘He hasn’t left an oat since Riccarton but it is very doubtful he will run in the Auckland Cup. I will probably start him in the Hazlett Stakes and the Invercargill Cup. If he is to have another shot at 3200 metres it would be in the Wellington Cup,” said his trainer, Hec Anderton. Bi Noble finished fifth in the Hazlett 12 months ago and second to Sea Swift in the Invercargill Cup.