DELIGHTFUL MEMPHIS FOR GROUP THREE SOUTH FEATURE
Delightful Memphis, impressive debut winner of the Group Three Leonard Memorial at Addington last Sunday, will chase back-to-back Group Three victories on Saturday week.
Delightful Memphis, a first-up winner of the Cheviot Club’s ‘Sweet Lou’ Leonard Memorial Stakes.
Overport Lodge trainer Mark Jones is sending her south for the $25,000 Caduceus Club Of Southland/Nevele R Stakes (mobile 2200m) at the Northern Southland feature meeting at Invercargill on March 12.
The Bettor’s Delight-Memphis Melody filly turned around the harness racing fortunes around of cricket celebrity Simon Doull with her debut win at the Cheviot meeting.
Mr Doull, a former NZ Black Cap and these days a Sky TV cricket commentator, has had some success racing gallopers and is renewing an earlier passion for harness racing.
His previous harness racing ownership was a share in the well-bred Masterful, a gelded son of Bettor’s Delight and former top pacing mare Victor Supreme, three years ago.
Masterful’s best effort in three northern starts as a mid-season 4YO when co-raced by Mr Doull was a fifth.
The horse was then leased out to Peter Ferguson and picked up two Manawatu wins before being exported to Australia.
Mr Doull’s first had a drive of pacers when helping out Pukekohe trainer Peter Brown around 25 years ago.