Devastation Shades Peterman In Stakes
Peterman’s winning sequence came to an end in the North Island Challenge Stakes, when the champion three-year-old was beaten into fifth place.
Devastation, another three-year-old, won the race brilliantly. The former Riccarton trainer, K. J. Thomson, will now probably prepare Devastation for the rich Easter Handicap at Ellerslie. Peterman, winner of his six previous races, three of them at the Wellington Cup meeting in January, had the odds heavily against him from the start on Saturday.
N. D. Riordan hoped for a rails run for the long-striding Le Filou gelding, but they became badly placed behind a wall of horses between the half-mile and the three furlongs, and he remained in close quarters for the rest of the race. Devastation, winner of the Wellington and Hawke’s Bay Guineas for Mr E. H. Debreceny of Wellington in the spring, and a successful campaigner in handicap sprints in the meantime. impressed with the power of his finishing run on Saturday.
A. T. Jones brought him forward on the outside of Kintyre and Royal Chase going to the last furlong while sitting quite still on him. Then, when Jones asked him for something extra, the chestnut responded brilliantly and dashed away to a winning margin of two lengths and a half. Royal Chase beat the 1964 North Island Challenge Stakes winner, Roodyvoo, by threequarters of a length for second. Kintyre, the leader from the six furlongs, was a neck back fourth, and Peterman was running on half a length away fifth.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31002, 7 March 1966, Page 4
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