Tui’s Lass obvious fancy for Stakes at Rangiora

Press, 9 April 1979, Page 22

Tui’s Lass obvious fancy for Stakes at Rangiora

By

J. J. BOYLE

The New Zealand St Leger winner, Tui's Lass, should be a sturdy “anchor” for the North Canterbury Racing Club's T.A.B. treble at Rangi* ora todav.

Today she lends quality to; the field for the Inglewood Stakes, first leg of then T.A.B. treble. It is the last) but one of the races in the i Broadlands Series for three-' year-old fillies, and it will)' be a test for her versatility. ) Today she will be back toll

1600 m. Last week she won the Newman’s Travel Stakes iover 2000 m and at her preI vious start she recorded the i major triumph of her career ' in the Leger (2800 m at iTrentham. Russell McAra might have i to make demands on Tui’s

Lass’s strength from a wide position at the awkward 1600 m barrier today, but class should have the final bearing on the result of the $5500 race. Stan McKay, Wingatui trainer of Tui’s Lass, hopes to complete arrangements

= to fly the Gate Keeper filly i to Auckland later this week t to allow her to contest the 1 Great Northern'Oaks. 3 If there is any hitch Tui’s Lass and her half-sister, i Loma Lass, will race at the s Canterbury Jockey Club’s s Easter meeting. After two seconds, Pennianne will be a top prospect for the Swannanoa Maiden Plate, second leg of the T.A.B. treble, but there is a wider spread of form over the third leg, the Ox--1 ford Handicap, and good j cases could be made for Palanga, Santa, Shifnal Rose, 5 Or Boy, and the Matangi--3 trained Saffron. j Sir James and Prince , Cicero are expected to be the pick of the field for the Rangiora Handicap, first leg of the T.A.B. double, and the talented three-year-old Brutus, with the assistance of Karen Coleman and an apprentice allowance, will be a popular fancy for the second 5 leg, the Kaiapoi Handicap.