TRACK WORK AT EPSOM

Press, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 26868, 22 October 1952, Page 5

TRACK WORK AT EPSOM

PLEASANT SMILE AND LADY JOSS FIT “The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND, October 21. The trials at Epsom this morning were fun on the outside of the course proper, where the going was fairly good before heavy rain set in. Chief interest was in the two-mile task of the New Zealand Trotting Cup candidate. Pleasant Smile, and Lady Joss, a favoured runner in the Smith Memorial and Electric Handicap on the first day of the Auckland Trotting Club’s spring meeting on Saturday. Trailing Lady Joss until the last quarter. Pleasant Smile ran past her, and was three lengths clear at the post in 4min 48sec, after running the final half-mile in lmin' 4 4-ssec. It was good work by Pleasant Smile, which is not without a chance in the Labour Day Handicap on Monday from 48 yards. Lady Joss did not lose any friends. Going away ahead of Mac’s Mistake over the same journey, Grenade hung on to shade his companion in 4min 54sec, but Mac’s Mistake came home really well to record lmin 5 l-ssec for the final section. Trailing Peter Again and Paean into the straight. Dawnlight finished well to shade them at the end of a mile and a quarter in 2min 57 3-ssec. She ran the first quai-ter in 37sec, and the last in 33sec. Peter Again is a good type of three-year-old, which should race well at Addington.’ Vitesse had no trouble in holding off two maiden pacers at the end of a mile and a half, after trotting the last mile and a quarter in 3min ssec, and the last half-mile in lmin lOsec. Convoy easily beat Melvruse, Eureka Scott, and National Bond over two miles in 4ndn 59sec. He ran the final mile in 2min 22sec, and the half-mile in lmin Bsec. Melvruse came home from well back in lmin 7sec for the final half-mile. Silver Tip was not troubled to cover a mile and a half in 3min 44sec, easing to take lmin 12s£c for the final half-mile. Mightv Song and Regalia, two Southerners, which remained at Epsom after the September meeting, did easy work.

Oamaru Trots.—Spend your racing holiday for the Labour week-end z at the popular trotting meeting at Oamaru. —Advt.