Seamist joins select band of fillies

Press, 27 December 1989, Page 37

Seamist joins select band of fillies

PA Dunedin Seamist joined a select band of fillies which have won the Dunedin Guineas when she prevailed narrowly in the $20,000 feature race at the Otago Racing Club’s meeting yesterday. Seamist joins Powley (1980) and Taciturn (1987) as the only fillies to win the race in the last 15 years. I Seamist, which had finished second to Philippa Rush in the One Thousand Guineas at her previous start on November 4, has had five starts for two wins and three seconds. Her next assignment is the White Robe Lodge Stakes (1600 m at the Southland meeting at Riverton on Saturday week. ; By Beaufort Sea from

Quidella, she is raced by her Christchurch breeders, Sandy and Barbara Wigley, and trained at Balcairn by John, Parsons. Seamist was in fourth place and three wide for much of the way, but came alongside Bi Light in the lead at the 300 m and won by half a length. “She was travelling keenly all the way and is still green, but she got some cover on. the turn and things went bur way,” said rider Shane McCann, who has built up an impressive record with members of the Parsons stable. Bi Light trailed the pacemaker and favourite, The Club, until the turn and stayed on gamely. has the White

Robe Lodge Stakes bn her programme. Killiecrankie did well for a maiden to finish third, running on from three back on the inner. Golden Anchor finished on from the rear for fourth. "He had a few traffic problems and should be improved,” said his rider, Terry Kennedy. The Club weakened to eighth. “He couldn’t handle the ground when I asked him to sprint,” said rider Erin Jillings. Quinella, the dam of Seamist, was bought by the Wigleys to breed jumpers as she is closely related to an earlier useful steeplechaser in their ownership, Bandarshar. Quidella (All A’LightQuenby Hall)

year at the age of 16. Her last foal is a two-year-old colt by Cocky Golfer. SPELLED Dirty Deal, a convincing winner of the Otago Breeders’ Champagne Stakes yesterday, will now be spelled. Dirty Deal, a colt by the American stallion, Sepulveda, from Philsea, has now had two wins from three starts. He will be aimed for a race at Ashburton in the autumn when brought back into work. He is trained there by Tony Lawrey, a former jockey. Lawrey prepares him for the O’Malley brothers, Ken and Peter, of Ikamatua, who were on hand to see the' coit win yesterday. ' The brothers, spent some years. working

for the : White Robe Lodge on the Taieri stud before returning to the family sheep and beef farm run in conjunction with a stud. They stand Sepulveda and recently bought 40 of the 46 shares in the son of First Landing. Sepulveda is in his third season at Ikamatua after one season at Clearwood stud, Pukekohe. Philsea is by Beaufort Sea, the sire of Seamist, the winner of the Dunedin Guineas yesterday. Dirty Deal disputed the pace with the favourite, Abel Tasman. He came clear at the 350 m and held off Pompeii Flight by three-quarters of a length. > Abel- Tasman dropped out to eighth, He was not by the soft track.