Master Fay

[pete]

4/5 lame after the win yesterday.

It must be heartbreaking to have an unsound horse with so much ability.

[Buller Rep]

Sure it wasn’t 3/5 Pete?

 

[pete]

4 hours ago, Buller Rep said:

Sure it wasn’t 3/5 Pete?

 

You're right.

[slam dunk]

Brings to mind the achievements of Clyde Conway and the beach training. 

[Buller Rep]

Wasn’t he (Clyde Conway) a master?

Slam Dunk, you must be pretty old to remember him. 

[Hesi]

Talking of the surname Conway, I'm sure this piece I found would bring back a few memories.

On the first two days of the 1969 Wellington summer carnival Mayo Gold carried huge weights to win over six furlongs (1200m) and seven furlongs (1400m) before stepping up to 10 furlongs to add the New Zealand Oaks – despite her rider Bill Skelton being severely inconvenienced by a slipped saddle. 

The following month Mayo Gold downed the star older horse Game in the weight-for-age Jackson Stakes at Wanganui, and as a four-year-old she again illustrated her class by winning the Railway Handicap at Ellerslie in track record time.  

[pete]

4 hours ago, Hesi said:

Talking of the surname Conway, I'm sure this piece I found would bring back a few memories.

On the first two days of the 1969 Wellington summer carnival Mayo Gold carried huge weights to win over six furlongs (1200m) and seven furlongs (1400m) before stepping up to 10 furlongs to add the New Zealand Oaks – despite her rider Bill Skelton being severely inconvenienced by a slipped saddle. 

The following month Mayo Gold downed the star older horse Game in the weight-for-age Jackson Stakes at Wanganui, and as a four-year-old she again illustrated her class by winning the Railway Handicap at Ellerslie in track record time.  

She was a brilliant horse. Trained by Ray Wallace at Takanini if I remember correctly.

[Freda]

13 hours ago, slam dunk said:

Brings to mind the achievements of Clyde Conway and the beach training. 

Didn't he get called 'the Waiuk Wizard' ?

[pete]

18 minutes ago, Freda said:

Didn't he get called 'the Waiuk Wizard' ?

I think so. Of course he trained the great jumper Smoke Ring.

[curious]

Was it Waiuk? or Waiuku? Think he won a few at the races there too didn't he?

Sounds like you might have had an overnight sex change Pete. If so, congratulations.

Edited January 29, 2024 by curious

[pete]

9 minutes ago, curious said:

Was it Waiuk? or Waiuku? Think he won a few at the races there too didn't he?

Sounds like you might have had an overnight sex change Pete. If so, congratulations.

Haha yes. There are some strange people on that site.

It was Waiuku which is south of Auckland.

He was also a very gifted racing journalist by all accounts.

Smoke Ring completed the Great Northern Hurdles/Steeples double in 1965.

[curious]

3 minutes ago, pete said:

Haha yes. There are some strange people on that site.

It was Waiuku which is south of Auckland.

He was also a very gifted racing journalist by all accounts.

Smoke Ring completed the Great Northern Hurdles/Steeples double in 1965.

Might have trained top 3yo Princess Patrice as well?

[pete]

4 minutes ago, curious said:

Might have trained top 3yo Princess Patrice as well?

I think you're right. She was part owned by a rather dodgy lawyer named David Hagar that my parents knew.

Won the 1975 Oaks at Trentham.

[Hesi]

42 minutes ago, curious said:

Might have trained top 3yo Princess Patrice as well?

Yes

[Hesi]

1 hour ago, curious said:

Was it Waiuk? or Waiuku? Think he won a few at the races there too didn't he?

Sounds like you might have had an overnight sex change Pete. If so, congratulations.

Petra, has a ring to it lol

[curious]

11 minutes ago, Hesi said:

Petra, has a ring to it lol

Petal was the give away I think 🙂

[LookingForValue]

Clyde used to take cast offs from other stables and rehabilitate them by training them on the beach. He started the Waiheke Races after a 50 year hiatus as a fundraiser and followed up with the Karekare Races. 

https://goodmagazine.co.nz/race-day/

 

[pete]

22 minutes ago, curious said:

Petal was the give away I think 🙂

Well it's actually PeteL because I couldn't use my former handle of Pete.

I belatedly realised that it could be misread.

All good fun.

[pete]

Maybe I should have called myself The Artist Formerly Known As Pete.

[curious]

19 minutes ago, pete said:

Maybe I should have called myself The Artist Formerly Known As Pete.

Haha

[Freda]

2 hours ago, curious said:

Was it Waiuk? or Waiuku? Think he won a few at the races there too didn't he?

Sounds like you might have had an overnight sex change Pete. If so, congratulations.

It was referring to Waiuku.  It was just the vernacular where it rolled off the tongue more easily.