dont forget to back super jockey tonight at hong kong .. race 9 number 5 .... " Promising Hastings-trained galloper Okie Dokie has been sold to Hong Kong for an undisclosed six-figure sum plans are for him to be aimed at this season’s Hong Kong Derby. The Sandtrap four-year-old gelding was trained by James Bridge and owned by him in partnership with his father John. He had one race in New Zealand, scoring an impressive 2-1/4 length win in the 1200-metre special conditions handicap on the first day of the Hawke’s Bay spring carnival on September 1. The horse was among the entries for a $20,000 Special Conditions 1300 at last Saturday’s Hawke’s Bay meeting but withdrawn once the sale had been confirmed. He is likely to spend the next month on a stud farm in the north before boarding a flight to Hong Kong in November. Okie Dokie was bred by Takapau’s Craig Harvey and Taradale’s Duncan MacLean in partnership with Australian-based Tim Morris. They sold the horse to the Bridges as a weanling. His dam Pennies In Heaven is a Pompeii Court mare who won five races and has also left the six-race winner Single Currency (by Bachelor Duke). Since Okie Dokie was born she has left a yearling filly by St Reims and is due to foal this year to Stravinsky. James Bridge said he was sorry to lose Okie Dokie from his stable but the offer was too good to turn down. The sale was negotiated by Central Districts bloodstock agent Phil Cataldo.
Posted on: Wed, 12 Jun 2013 05:23:09 +0000