N.Z.-bred horses dominate programme

Press, 7 December 1988, Page 61

N.Z.-bred horses dominate programme

Last Friday’s New South Wales Harness Racing Club’s meeting at Harold Park in Sydney featured five New Zealandbred winners of the 10race programme.

Sydney’s leading trainer-reinsman, David Aitken, scored a hat-trick with Kiwi Fella, Serendipity Saga and Kama Fella, while Late Lustre and Andrelita were the others which did their initial racing in this part of the world.

Serendipity Saga, developed in Canterbury by Colin de Filippi, won the main race on the programme in a 1:59.3 mile rate for the mobile 1960 m, beating another ex-New Zealand pacer, My Hanover Nugent, with an other former Canterbury horse, (Our) Mighty

Son fourty. Now six, Serendipity Saga (Mark Lobell —Sentimental Saga) was recording his seventh win in 11 starts this season and his sixteenth win from 41 career starts. Kama Fella, which was also prepared for a time by Colin de Filippi when he was training at Pukekohe, rated 2:2.9 for the mobile 2350 m on Friday, registering his sixth career win.

Kiwi Fella, formerly prepared at Rangiora by Erin Crawford, was recording his third Harold Park win in as many Sydney appearances, rating 2:1.9 for the mobile 1960 m.

@ Being labelled as a potential South Australian star is another former Canterbury pacer, Andy

Bush, which left New Zealand as a qualified maiden from Kevin Deuart’s stable.

The five-year-old Honkin Andy-Logan Miss gelding won his fourth race in his last five starts at Globe Derby Park in Adelaide on Saturday. He is trained by Lance Justice, who was earlier associated with the big-winning free-for-aller, Whirley Dream.

“Andy Bush led from the outside barrier at the mobile 2230 m start at Globe Derby, which is no mean feat,” said Justice. “He won by seven metres, rating 2:1.5 for the distance. He is now the equivalent to a C 7 pacer on the Australian handicapping system,” he said.