Promising filly records effortless win

Press, 17 March 1987, Page 44

Promising filly records effortless win

By

ALEX McMILLAN

The Riccarton horsemai), Chris Johnson, gained compensation in no uncertain fashion for a bad fall earlier in the day when he partnered the promising filly, Camallino Star, to an effortless win in the 100 Pipers Weight-For-Age, the feature event at the Ashburton County Racing Club’s meeting at Ashburton yesterday. "She was always going really well after pulling a bit early,” said Johnson as he limped to the jockeys’ room after the $7OOO event, his badly bruised

left thigh still giving him obvious discomfort. Camallino Star, a member of Garth Jackson’s Riccarton stable since September, was successful once as a two-year-old in the colours of Ivan Allen when prepared at Cambridge by Alan Jones. The filly was transferred south to join Jackson’s team after her sale to Mr Alan Galbraith, an Aucklandbased director of the Blandford Lodge Stud (Matamata). The win was Camallino Star’s second since arriving in the South Island and the three-year-old daughter of Oenjay Star

will now be aimed towards the Wrightson Southern Filly Award series, with the $7250 Wrightson Waitaki Stakes at Oamaru on Monday her immediate assignment. Camallino Star was positioned behind the pacemaking Goodie Two Shoes early in yesterday’s 1600 m race for fillies and mares but clearly had the measure of that runner before the home turn, being sent to an unassailable lead early in the run home, and finally winning, easing down, by four lengths from Satiny’s Pride, which made ground solidly after rac-

ing handy to the pace throughout.

The second favourite, Danseuse Royale, was “not good enough,” according to her rider, Mark Barnsley, but her battling run from midfield was still enough to secure her the third stake ahead of Goodie Two Shoes.

The dominating favourite, Connie Lawn, was a major disappointment, settling at the rear of the seven-horse field and making only marginal progress along the rails early in the run home before retreating to finish a well-beaten sixth.