Canterbury Belle to miss Te Rapa race

Press, 7 February 1986, Page 23

Canterbury Belle to miss Te Rapa race

By

J. J. BOYLE

A hitch over travelling arrangements rules out a start for Canterbury Belle in the Cambridge Stud International at Te Rapa next week, but the Auckland Racing Club’s Air New Zealand Stakes on February 22 is still on her programme.

Canterbury Belle’s Riccarton'trainer, Dave Kerr, would have welcomed a

lead-up race at Te Rapa for the star of his team, but might find the Otago Racing Club’s White Robe Lodge Handicap a suitable substitute.

Lesser Lights in the Kerr team kept up the stable’s good strike rate at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting yesterday. The stable produced Corrie Doone for a successful debut in the Meyfor Handicap — a

result well anticipated. Mrs J. M. Wilson’s halfbrother to All Trebles was backed down to favouritism and won comfortably by a length and a quarter. Another successful favourite from the Kerr stable was The Thief, which made all the running for a lengthy victory in the Noahs Handicap.

This was The Thief’s third win from six starts,

and it followed a victory at Trentham on Wellington Cup day.

The Kerr stable had two runners in the Meadow Mushrooms Handicap, a 1600 m event for three-year-olds.

Snowdrift ran the winner, the Foxtontrained Willow Vale to a short head, and Mr Magoo battled into fourth little more than a length back.