Racing and trotting Light-weight succeeds at expense pf Grey Way

Press, 19 April 1979, Page 22

Racing and trotting Light-weight succeeds at expense pf Grey Way

By

J. J. BOYLE

lonian S ... having only her second start for the Eketahuna studmaster. Mr Ted McLachlan, played the role of giant killer in the Templeton Handicap, first leg of the Canterbury Jockey Club's T.A.B. double yesterday.

She kept out the courageous favourite. Grey Way, byi a long neck in this, the third! vi"torv of her career. lonian Sea. with the help, of < 3k” allowance, carredl only 45.5 kg or 16kg less) than Grey Wav and though i her lea'’ was reduced, she never anneared to be in danger of losing f'rst place Mr McLachlan purchased i lonian Se-’ f-nm h” r Cante r -l bury breeder. Mr Jack Thwaites. for a five-figure

sum at the end of lastj month. lonian Sea was fourth ini fhe North canterburv Racing' Chib’s Inglewood Stakes at! her first start in the i M' 1 achian colours. Mr Mcf achlen did not see' his Beaufort Sea filly run! veste-d->v hut hopes to he!

a* Riccarton on Saturday i V'hen she ru”s in the War-1 S'ep Stakes, the final race of I the Broadlands series this! season. The Riccar’on trainer,! peter Jo-es. who has pre-i pared lonian Sea throughout■ her career, told Mr McLach-! lan by nhone on Tuesdayi night that he was confident) tho filiv would give Grey V' -’ nlen' v to do at the! weights. He engaged thei

Wingatui apprentice, Charlie) Brough, for lonian Sea, secur-1 i ing every possible advantage with a lad able to claim 3kg. Kevin Morton, Grey Way’s i rider, said that the weights 5 had the biggest bearing on I the result. Early in the run home he thought Grev Way! would win comfortably but) i the grey’s finish had been i ! blunted close to the end by! ' his continued effort to peg back the lightly-supported > lonian Sea.

i) Grey Way mat’ be back in| I the North Island for the! s Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club’s autumn meeting. “It is hard enough giving! : away big lumps of a handi-l i capper’s weight, but it is too! tough for the old fellow try-' iing to handle horses able to (carry less than the carded) I minimum,” Grey Way’s) owner, Mr Peter South, said! after the race. j Highborn, a newcomer to 'racing against class one 1

I horses, did well for his third ! after starting wide. He just beat Blue Sage, which .drifted early, but rallied , | again. I Windvale Toi, the favourjite, was a fair fifth on a track too firm to show her to grestest advantage. | Flying View drifted out ) early, ran up on the outside I close behind Grey Way on the home turn, and kept 1 battling away for sixth.