Oshawa credits sire with first win

Press, 11 September 1989, Page 32

Oshawa credits sire with first win

Invercargill correspondent The Albatross horse, Del Cavallo, which is standing for Lester Keenan at Kerrytown this season, was credited with his first siring success when Oshawa outclassed the three-year-olds at Ascot Park on Saturday. A National Bloodstock importation, Del Cavallo first stood at Ross Dynes’s Ryal Park Stud for two years and Oshawa is a member of his first crop. Del Cavallo was then based for a term at Ngaruawahia and stood last season for Peter Andrews of West Melton. Oshawa, well rated in front by Robin Swain, unbound a final 400 in*f

29.7 to shut out his rivals by a length and three quarters in a 2:5.2 mile rate for the mobile 2200 metres. He was voted Horse of the Day by the press. Oshawa, runner-up to Hydro Lodge at Wyndham and sixth in Mark Hanover’s Welcome Stakes at Addington last March, is owned and trained by Woodlands shearer Stewart Somerville. In the 1979-80 term, Somerville figured as a part-owner of top three-year-old Armbro Wings, conqueror of Armalight in the Great Northern Derby and winner of four other races at that age from the Edendale stable of Alex Milne, sen. Somerville trained Jackup to win two races

in 1983-84 before selling him to the Central Standard bred Agency. The Jack Chance horse won the previous term for Milne. Somerville breeds on a foal about basis from Oshawa’s dam Sensation with Southland farmer Brendan Fahy. The partners bought Sensation in embryo with her dam, Sentimental Reason, in 1980 from Christchurch interests. Sensation was placed several times for her owners and belongs to the family of Lordship, Emulous, Mister Fallacy (1:57.6) and Serendipity, a fine young pacer in Australia. Mr Fahy has a two-year-old Admiral Halsey filly frfam Sensation and

she is carrying his foal by Clever Innocence. Somerville has a yearling Cadillac colt from the mare. Mr Fahy, the vice-presi-dent of the Southland Standardbred Breeders’ Association and a committee member of the Invercargill club, had double cause to celebrate on Saturday night. Only a week earlier, he leased Best Dressed from Maurepn Holmes, of Christchurch, and brought the Saville Row mare home after the Forbury Park meeting, placing her with Winton trainer Clark Barron. Best Dressed wasted no time crediting Barron with his first success as a trainer in the Nero’s 8.8. Mobile Pace, third ftg of

the T.A.B. treble on Saturday. Best Dressed quit maiden ranks on Boxing Day at Ashburton last season for Mrs Holmes, widow of the late Graham Holmes. Forbury Park trainer Paul Kerr tested his first success as a professional trainer when Bridie Two won the McDonald Excavating Pace on Saturday. Earlier, Kerr scored as an amateur licence-holder with Manana Lodge, Sycamore and Pizza Man. He also prepared Son Of A Guest, which split Mark Hanover and Honkin Vision in last season’s Welcome Stakes at Addington. ... ' Son Of A Guest was later sold to Australia for a six-figure sum.