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YEAR: 1992

CHARLIE PATEMAN

Charlie Pateman, who died in Blenheim age 93, was an owner of standardbreds and thoroughbreds, widely known throughout NZ and Australia. Highly successful as a hard-working caterer and hotelier, first in Timaru and then for long years in Blenheim, Mr Pateman raced numerous gallopers, pacers and trotters on both sides of the Tasman, some of them in his own direct interests and many more out on lease. His best gallopers were Ray Ribbon (who beat all but Rising Fast in the 1955 Caulfield Cup and won the Williamstown Cup) and Lady Christine (who cost him 400 guineas as a yearling and was the top 2-year-old of 1946-47).

Mr Pateman initially owned Mankind, but let that good pacer slip through his hands to subsequently bring Wes Butt into prominence in the game in the early 1940s. In 1967 Mr Pateman sold the trotter French Pass after his first win to Wellingtonian Roy McKenzie, for whom he won a string of races including the Dominion Handicap of that year and beat all but Stylish Major in the 1968 Inter-Dominion Grand Final in Auckland.

Mr Pateman also bred and raced a smart pacer in the mid-1970s, Grosvenor Lord. One of the shareholders with Noel Simpson in the founding of Prestatyn Raceway in Wales, which opened in 1963, Mr Pateman served as judge among other official capacities and with Simpson worked hard but in vain to get harness racing off the lower rung in the United Kingdom.

Credit: 1993 TAB Harness Racing Annual



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