PWJ Posted July 22, 2020 Share Posted July 22, 2020 Ellerslie - Saturday October 9, 1976 The Great Northern Guineas run that day brought together the leading 3yos of the Spring to that point. Name the jockeys, trainers and sires for the first 5 home: 1st Vice Regal 2nd Silver Lad 3rd Mayo Mellay 4th Bunvaro 5th Zermatt Arrowfield Cap to the first person to post all 15 correct answers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesi Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Let's start this off Vice Regal owner/trainer Jim Campin, now deceased Silver Lad(Derby winner), Sir Silver Lad in Aus, Bruce? Petley Mayo Mellay The Chemist Bill sanders Bunvaro, pass, but won the Hawkes Bay Gold Cup as a 3 year old Zermatt, pass, can vaguely remember this horse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hesi Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 The Mayo, brings back memories, of the great Mayo Gold Mayo Gold won eight times as a 2yr-old, taking the Manawatu Sires' Produce Stakes, Great Northern Champagne Stakes, Eclipse Stakes at Ellerslie and the Pacific Handicap at Trentham under nine stone five pounds (59.5kg). She won another eight at three, including six on end. She won the Wellington Stakes, the Metropolitan Handicap (a seven furlong (1400m) open sprint) and the Wellington Oaks in eight days at the 1969 Wellington Cup meeting. She carried on to win the Jackson Stakes at Wanganui and Lady Norrie Stakes at Te Rapa, both at weight -for-age as a 3yr-old. She won the Railway Handicap (six furlongs, 1200m) at Ellerslie as a 4yr-old in track record time of 1.9 4-5 and ended her racing career with 18 wins 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Globederby19 Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 None of them had sulkys ,so I'm out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 11 hours ago, Hesi said: Let's start this off Vice Regal owner/trainer Jim Campin, now deceased Silver Lad(Derby winner), Sir Silver Lad in Aus, Bruce? Petley Mayo Mellay The Chemist Bill sanders Bunvaro, pass, but won the Hawkes Bay Gold Cup as a 3 year old Zermatt, pass, can vaguely remember this horse Sires were Vice Regal by Bismarck II Silver Lad by Silver Dream Mayo Mellay by Mellay Bunvaro by Alvaro Zermatt by Taipan II Silver Lads trainer was Barry Petley who was Jacks brother I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngakonui grass Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 (edited) Gordon Pollard or Alan Douglas trained Bunvaro at Te Awamutu Margrett Bull trained Zermatt Vice Regal ..............Gary Edge Silver Lad...............Des Wyatt Mayo Mellay...........Noel Harris Bunvaro...................Lance Douglas? Zermatt...................W Robinson? Edited July 23, 2020 by ngakonui grass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 Interestingly it looks like Mayo Mellay ended up as a jumps sire in the UK. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngakonui grass Posted July 23, 2020 Share Posted July 23, 2020 19 minutes ago, pete said: Interestingly it looks like Mayo Mellay ended up as a jumps sire in the UK. Did he stand at stud at Dave Littlejohns stud in New Plymouth for a while. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 4 hours ago, pete said: Sires were Vice Regal by Bismarck II Silver Lad by Silver Dream Mayo Mellay by Mellay Bunvaro by Alvaro Zermatt by Taipan II Silver Lads trainer was Barry Petley who was Jacks brother I think. Correct on all those counts Pete. Nice fellas the Petleys. When I first went to work for Arthur Williams Barry was training the little Star way chap Star Board Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 57 minutes ago, ngakonui grass said: Gordon Pollard or Alan Douglas trained Bunvaro at Te Awamutu Margrett Bull trained Zermatt Vice Regal ..............Gary Edge Silver Lad...............Des Wyatt Mayo Mellay...........Noel Harris Bunvaro...................Lance Douglas? Zermatt...................W Robinson? NG correct on all those. Alan Douglas did train Bunvaro (loved the wet if I remember) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 20 minutes ago, ngakonui grass said: Did he stand at stud at Dave Littlejohns stud in New Plymouth for a while. Yes I was a good mate of Dave who had a dairy farm just outside of Inglewood. He stood about 6 stallions but Mayo was his pride and joy. Very talented racehorse but very unsound. Made little to no impact at stud but his mares were rubbish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted July 23, 2020 Author Share Posted July 23, 2020 NG, PM me with your mailing address and name and I'll send you an Arrowfield cap. Well done guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 2 hours ago, PWJ said: Correct on all those counts Pete. Nice fellas the Petleys. When I first went to work for Arthur Williams Barry was training the little Star way chap Star Board I remember Star Board. He was a really durable sort. Had lots of starts I seem to recall. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ngakonui grass Posted July 24, 2020 Share Posted July 24, 2020 7 hours ago, PWJ said: Yes I was a good mate of Dave who had a dairy farm just outside of Inglewood. He stood about 6 stallions but Mayo was his pride and joy. Very talented racehorse but very unsound. Made little to no impact at stud but his mares were rubbish. Friend of mine sent a mare(full sister to Harpoon) to Bagwis . Result was one of the few winners by Bagwis in NZ. In lieu of a fee he gave him a filly by Balkan Knight out of his Rapier11 mare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PWJ Posted July 25, 2020 Author Share Posted July 25, 2020 On 7/24/2020 at 4:52 PM, ngakonui grass said: Friend of mine sent a mare(full sister to Harpoon) to Bagwis . Result was one of the few winners by Bagwis in NZ. In lieu of a fee he gave him a filly by Balkan Knight out of his Rapier11 mare. Bagwis was a lovely dark brown horse by Bletchingly probably the best looking of Dave's team Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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