Grey Way on way back to South Island today

Press, 12 April 1979, Page 24

Grey Way on way back to South Island today

By

J. J. BOYLE

Grey Way will not run in the Auckland Racing Club's Marlboro Easter Handicap on Saturday.

The Washdyke trainer, Pat Corboy, flew to Auckland last night, and will be on the road back south with the eight-year-old today. Grey Way’s owner, Mr Peter South, was told from Auckland yesterday that there was little chance of a firm track at Ellerslie on Saturday. He then decided to bring the veteran back to the South Island with hopes of firmer footing for the Great Easter Handicap at Riccarton on Monday. “We gave some thought to a start at Feilding, but we feel we will be doing the best thing by the horse by bringing him back to Riccarton with a stop over at Blenheim, and not asking

t'him to race on the trip d south.” Mr South said I yesterdays. 1 The Great Easter Handie cap will be Grey Way’s first race in the South Island r since he won the White .Robe Lodge Stakes at Wing1 atui in February. M The Riccarton jockey, I Kevin Morton, who won the II White Robe Lodge Stakes on , Grey Way, will probably be I the horse’s Great Easter 3 j Handicap rider. = Norton’s George Adams ;' Handicap mount will be Sir 11 James, an unlucky third in | his hands at Rangiora on > I Monday. : Morton won the George : I Adams Handicap last year ilon Candyboy, but that • j Wingatui horse will have his I j trainer, Jim Pankhurst up, : when he attempts his second

>, victory in the race on MonI day. Prodigal, a second Pan- • khurst-trained runner in the : George Adams Handicap, I will be ridden by the Riccar- : ton rider, Ron McCann. Yipp’s Secret, winner of her last three races from Rex Cochrane’s Gore stable, i will also be attempting her i third successive win on Ric- . carton when she runs in the ■ George Adams Handicap. She was unbeaten in two i starts at the New Zealand ■ Cup meeting. The first of them was in a high-weight, : the second under 57kg in the testing Otaio Plate (2500 m Since that campaign at Riccarton Yipp’s Secret has : won the Wyndham and Waimate Cups, and the first running of the D. B. Galaxy Stakes at Wingatui.

Besides, she was an unlucky fifth in the Dunedin Gold Cup, won by Mr Ay Bee. Yipp's Secret beat her stablemate, Dark Isa, and Candyboy into the minor places in the D. B Galaxy Stakes. She will meet Candyboy on the same terms, with both carrying 3kg less in the: $20,000 race at Riccarton. | As usual, Jim Collett will: ride Yipp’s Secret. Collett has been engaged) for the Riccarton sprinter,, Salvaro, in the Great Easter. , Brutus, the closest toGrey Way in the weights for the Great Easter, will he ridden by Maurice Thornley. This was a successful) combination tn the GoreGuineas Trial last spring.