First winner

Press, 4 February 1987, Page 49

First winner

Special correspondent Dunedin John Lemon, aged 18, had his first winning drive when he drove Bob Jones to an all-the-way win in a Cl event at Forbury Park on Saturday. Bob Jones is raced by Lemon’s parents, Dave and Joan Lemon, of Ashburton, from the Tinwald stable of Lin Trotter. Bob Jones had finished well back at Forbury Park on Wednesday night but he thrived working on the beach in between times.

His young driver works for John Hay at Ashburton and this was his eighth drive. Bob Jones stalled off the strong-fin-ishing Swift Berry by a neck.

Tender Loving Miss, which registered a comfortable win in a CO event for fillies and mares, is a three-year-old half-sister to Jay Bee’s Fella, the winner of last year’s West Australian Derby. She was having her first start for Alex Milne junior, of Edendale. She had been unplaced in four starts from Peter Wolfenden’s Drury stable when sent north for mobile races by Graeme Anderson, of Invercargill, and John Hanson, of California, who earlier bought her from Blake Eskdale, of Tapanui. Tender Loving Miss (by Pass With Care) was three wide early, then handy and she went to the front at the 800 metres.