Bothwell’s ‘Lady’ looks star quality
PA Wellington Starring Lady is pigeontoed and was passed in at the sales, but the Stratford trainer, Dick Bothwell, rates her as potentially equal to his former star juvenile, Summer Haze.’
After the two-year-old’s effortless three-length victory in the Wellington Civil and General Contractors Handicap at Trentham last Saturday, Bothwell was full of praise for the filly.
“She has to be the most promising two-year-old I’ve had since Summer Haze. They are different types, Summer Haze was very precocious, but this filly, the further they go the better she’ll go,” said Bothwell.
“It took Maree (Lyndon) to the 1100 m mark to pull her up, so she’ll obviously ' improve with the run.” Summer Haze was the top juvenile filly of the 1979-80 season, with her
wins including the Manawatu Sires’ Produce Stakes.
Bothwell said Starring Lady was not sold at the 1989 Wrightson National Yearling Sale because of her offset off-foreleg, which made her appear pigeon-toed. “But I liked the look of her and the leg hits the ground O.K. We’ve had no trouble with it so far.” Bothwell arranged to lease the filly from the Auckland-based Redoubt Park Stud and she is - raced by four Eltham men — Warwick Arnold, Robert Barr, Victor Graham and Mark Simpson — who all work at Huttons.
“That’s why she didn’t pay much — everyone at Huttons was on her,” said Mr Barr.
Having her first race start, Starring Lady was second favourite for the 1000 m event, paying $4.75 to win.
The Australian bred filly, by Lord Dudley out of Star Of Milan, is bred to win at two, said Bothwell. “Her mother was a listed race winner in Australia at two and has left a two-year-old listed race winner in Australia.”
Bothwell said Starring Lady had one trials run before her debut and that was when he realised her real potential. “One horse dropped its rider at the start and she got tangled up in that so gave them 10 lengths ... it was only a 600 metre trial and she got up to be beaten (third) by two noses.”
Bothwell plans to run Starring Lady next in the $28,000 West End Avondale Stakes (1100 m at Avondale on December 16.
“I actually think she’ll run better right-handed as she seems to have trouble getting around the bends on left-handed tracks.”
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