Racing: North Island campaign

Flying Alibi is under consideration for a North Island campaign after an impressive win at Wingatui yesterday.

"There is not that much available for him and we will look at better opportunities in the North Island," Tarsha Stokes, the co-trainer of Flying Alibi, said.

She trains Flying Alibi with her husband, Michael, who races the 4yr-old with Laurie Howard, of Timaru.

Flying Alibi has won three times from nine starts.

"I did not feel he was that comfortable in the sticky ground today," Stokes said.

Flying Alibi won three starts back on a soft track at Riccarton. Stokes said he was just as capable of top of the ground.

Montjeu sired winners at different ends of the scale yesterday. His son, Pour Moi, won the Derby at Epsom and Mangaroa Lad won an $8000 race at Wingatui.

It was the second win for Mangaroa Lad, raced on lease from a North Island breeder by Eastern Southland owners Johnny and Carole Allison, Andrea Dickson, Karen and Morgan Horrell, Malcolm and Carol McKee, Jim Paterson and Pam Patterson.

Mangaroa Lad has won twice in five starts since joining the Gore stable of Ellis Winsloe.

Shelley Owens, of Lincoln, who bred Bestman, was on hand yesterday to see him win a maiden race at odds of 59-to-one.

Bestman was having his second start. He is raced on lease by friend Bob Elliot, of Ranfurly, who was competing in dog trials at Masterton. Bestman is trained by Brian and Shane Anderton.

He is a 4yr-old by Yamanin Vital and the first winner bred by Owens. She bought his dam, Kapliyda at a North Island dispersal sale when the mare was 19. The Irish-bred mare had left three winners. She is now retired.

Renee Mare was scratched on veterinary advice yesterday.

"She stood on herself getting out of the swimming pool and she has some filling in a tendon," her trainer, Brian Anderton, said.

 

 

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