Great Start for Fully Fledged Calder

Wednesday, 11 September 2002 00:00

Andrew Calder made a perfect start to life as a fully fledged jockey at Te Rapa today when he won on his first two rides since coming out of his time.

Calder's apprenticeship, which brought 142 winners, ended last Saturday. Odds of better than 30-to-one on his first Te Rapa mount, Benny Biggs, failed to deter him as he brought the locally-trained Lowell gelding through for an easy win.

In the next race he overcame a pocket halfway up the straight to get Hastings visitor Abidintime home narrowly.

Calder began his apprenticeship with Hastings trainer Dianne Sergeant, but in more recent times has been attached to the Cambridge stable of another whose career began in the Bay, Chris McNab.

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