Pretty Cocky smartest

Press, 4 March 1988, Page 25

Pretty Cocky smartest

By DAVID MCCARTHY The South Canterbury breeder, Mr John Aspjnall, and his wife Mary, received some compensation for the recent retirement of Jonny Alone when his half-sister, Pretty Cocky, won the Mulken Handicap at the Riccarton Turf Club’s oncourse meeting at Riccarton yesterday. H. I Pretty Cocky disputed, the pace with the favourite Sly Dollar and asserted, her superiority 100 m out to win narrowly but well over Beaufort Dee, which) was always handy. Pretty Cocky is trained i by

Graeme Jackson at Fairview who has educated a I dozen juveniles this season. Pretty Cocky has won three trials for him j and may race next at i Oamaru. “I haven’t done a lot of I sprinting with them at , home. I’ve got a good plough track and I exer-; cise them on that,” Jackson) said. Pretty Cocky is the second winner by Cocky Golfer at Riccarton this season, Bobby Golfer, also j trained in South Canterbury, scoring last October, i Beaufort Dee ran greenly but stuck to his task well and Shank, another son of

Cocky Golfer ran on well for third. Sly Dollar wilted to fourth. I The Riccarton trainer. Bill Beck, produced the big surprise on the early part of the programme when Dixie La Rue led all the way in the Arbuckles. Dixie la Rue was making her southern debut and was ridden by Gavin Butler, who also recently shifted from the north and who is attached to the Beck stable. Grant Davison and Tide Mark got the Kerr stable away to a good start when the Palm Beach gelding was far too strong for his opponents in the

highweight but Davison’s keen rival, Chris Johnson, experienced mixed success. He rode Romantic Beauty to a stylish victory in the Grigor for the Garth Jackson stable but Delightful Dame, which Johnson trains himself, could only manage third in ! the Arbuckles and Johnson was subsequently charged with failing to ride the horse out near the post when Double Reason headed it for second placing. He was suspended for one riding day and will not now be riding at Trentham tomorrow.