Red Back sold
By
DAVID McCARTHY
Red Back, one of the South island’s leading three-year-olds this season, has been sold and will do his future racing in Hong Kong and is due to leave for his new quarters today. The chestnut was owned by Dave Kerr who bought him privately as a youngster. He won five of his last six starts this season including the Dunedin Guineas in December and the Countdown Three-Year-Old Championship, also at Wingatui, on Anzac Day. Red Back ran third in the Gore Guineas after being trapped wide from a bad draw and won two intermediate races with ease at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Easter meeting. Red Back, a half brother to The Snob, is from the English-bred Reform mare Formcast, a grand-daugh-ter of the great race and broodmare Meld, dam of Mellay and the Derby winner Charlottown. He is the only winner in New Zealand so far for the ill fated Centurius, a brother to Grundy, which died after two seasons at stud here. Red Back is from his first crop.
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Press, 26 June 1989, Page 32
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