Bright future predicted for Perazzi

Press, 23 November 1987, Page 35

Bright future predicted for Perazzi

Special correspondent Invercargill

The Ashburton trainer, Peter Williams, seemed justified in predicting a bright future for Perazzi, after he ran his rivals ragged in the Craig Printing Co, Ltd, Handicap at Ascot Park on Saturday. Perazzi, which gained his fourth success in the Southland Racing Club’s 1400 m event, is a newcomer to the Ashburton stable of Williams, who trains him in partnership with his wife, Dawn.

Perazzi, earlier with Twin Miller, of Ashburton, but now based at

Riccarton, has been under the guidance of the Williams partnership for the last two months. Perazzl’s four owners, all of Ashburton, expressed the wish that they wanted their horse to be trained locally, enabling them to more easily monitor and enjoy his progress. “All going well, I think this horse could go places,” Peter Williams said after the horse’s stylish win on Saturday. “He is a big and toey type but we backed right off him when we got him, and don’t bother gallop him.” Perazzi, a son of

the noted speedster, Schweppshire Lad, the winner of the Concorde Sprint, is out of a Mellay mare, Her Ladyship, and is raced by Jock Austin, Neville Buchanan, Hamish Geddess and Michael Poff, all of Ashburton. Courier Flight, a dashing all-the-way winner of the Macaulay Ford Motors 1600, the main race on Saturday, is in his last season of racing. The eight-year-old Noble Bijou entire has a career at stud earmarked for him by his Pukerau owner-breeder, M$ Catherine Pullar.