In brief

Press, 22 August 1989, Page 33

In brief

Dunedin cup change This year’s Dunedin New World Cup at the Forbury Park Trotting Club’s meeting on October 14 will be run as a CB-OC free-for-all pace. Previously run under invitation conditions, the New World Cup will again be run over 2700 m from a standing start. The stake remains unchanged from last year at $26,000.

Share of mares’ record

Armbro Feather, a five-year-old mare by Most Happy Fella from Bret’s Velvet, equalled the world mile pacing record for aged mares at the Meadowlands track in New Jersey, North America, on August 5. She stopped the timer in 1:51.6 (tenths) in a $U525,000 open fillies and mares pace.

Owners take pride

White Horse Pride ran his first placing for new owners, Roydon Lodge Stud Ltd, when narrowly beaten by Marcol’s Pride in the C2 and faster trot at Alexandra Park last Friday. The promising Game Pride gelding had earlier been purchased by the Kenwood Bloodstock Agency from Central Otago owners in July and Sent north to Charlie Hunter’s Cambridge stable.

U.S. success

Claire de Lune, a Midshipman mare which ran third for Robert Dunn behind Josephine Bret and Lucy Lumber in the 1984 New Zealand Oaks at Addington, is the dam of a 1:55.6 (tenths) Meadowlands winner in North America in Hit The Roof. Hit The Roof, a three-year-old colt by the Meadow Skipper stallion, Landslide (1:54.2), is the first foal of Claire de Lune, which won twice in a limited amount of racing in N.Z. before being exported. She took a 2:1.8 record in North America.