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Mun Lee shows class

Special Correspondent Auckland Mun Lee showed all her class when winning the Galaxy Stakes at Ellerslie yesterday. Certainly the weight-for-age conditions placed her at a big advantage but nobody could be certain that she would manage the very heavy ground. Most betters took the risk, making Mun Lee a solid favourite. And it was only over the last 50 or 60 m that they had cause for much worry. Once around the first turn Mun Lee left little doubt that she would handle the conditions sufficiently well. Her rider, Maurice Campbell, took the chance, while she was

travelling easily on the bit, to let her run to the leaders, Braless and Rose Of Carlyle, and carry on to the front.

Until the last 100 m Mun Lee continued to hold them all off pretty clearly. She then began to shorten stride and Campbell had to ride her hard, hands and heels, to keep out Shifilou, which battled home very determinedly. They had it to themselves, Voliz, in third place, being two lengths and a half

away, just in front ef Legal Command. Campbell, who rode Mun Lee through the sequence of wins that made her the top three-year-old filly last sea. son, had missed the riding of her lately when commit* ting himself to Northfleet for the Trentham Stakes in January then Grey Way. Besides remaining one of the most successful riders, Campbell holds a trainer’s licence and he finds time as well to operate a thoroughbred stud on 76 acres near Palmerston North.

Just lately he arranged (he stud’s first importation, a six-year-old half-brother of Karayar, named Kairamoun, which he is happy to report, has just landed in excellent order after a spell in quarantine.

Not much more will tie asked of Mun Lee this season. Ray Sellwood is hopeful of tackling the Ormond Gold Cup with her at Hastings and, he says that will just about do her for the season A bay mare, by Great Wall from Phareno, Mun Lee is held on lease by a Wellington businessman, Mr M. J. Nelson. The lease runs out at the end of this season, after which Mr Nelson will race her for a’time in partnership with the ownerbreeder Mr D. G. Gordon, of Hastings.

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Press, 17 April 1979, Page 23

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379

Mun Lee shows class Press, 17 April 1979, Page 23

Mun Lee shows class Press, 17 April 1979, Page 23

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