Blovinski extends purple patch for Lalors

Press, 7 February 1986, Page 23

Blovinski extends purple patch for Lalors

By

J. J. BOYLE

“I seem to have found a good sort of trainer,” Mrs Greta Lalor said with a mischievous grin after her four-year-old Blovinski won the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Steinlager Export Handicap at Riccarton yesterday.

The successful trainer is Mrs Lalor’s husband, Tom, who now plans to point the Palatable gelding for the Dunedin Gold

Cup, a race won for the Lalor stable last year by His Latest.

Until quite recently Mrs Lalor raced Blovinski on lease from Mr Bill Tapp, but she purchased the bay before the West Coast holiday circuit, and has rejoiced at her decision.

Blovinski’s win yesterday was his fourth in his last six starts and the seventh of his career. Blovinski had the skilful

assistance of Grant Davison in achieving his win in the first leg of yesterday’s T.A.B. double. Davison had Blovinski poised for his challenge at the pacemaking southerner Beau Bandy on the home turn, and did not make very strenuous demands on him immediately. Beau Bandy puy up plucky resistance, but Royal Sceptre reached the end of a rails run and

none of the others got into the action fast enough to widen the range of interest.

Ten Winks, the win favourite, made good headway out of the pack, to secure third placing, but with little to spare from Noble Boa, which had to come from last in his bid to win a race he scored in last year. Royal Sceptre faded to fifth and Kade wound up sixth.