Brilliant Trial Run By Yahabeebe

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28491, 22 January 1958, Page 4

Brilliant Trial Run By Yahabeebe

(From Our Own Reporter)

WELLINGTON, January 21. Yahabeebe easily set new figures for seven furlongs in training at Trentham, when she brilliantly ran seven furlongs on the trial grass this morning in Imln 23 3-ssec.

Mainbrace recorded Imin 27secfor the distance in a trial at Trentham before he won the Gloaming Stakes seven years ago, and that was regarded as an exceptionally brilliant gallop. Yahabeebe’s run this morning staggered all but her. Ellerslie trainer, M. E. Ritchie. Ritchie instructed G. F. Hughes to start at threequarter pace from the mile. He called oh Hughes for more speed just as the Mid-day Sun mare was nearing the seven furlong mark, and the first three furlongs were reeled off in 34sec, and the first half mile in 46 3-ssec. In the straight, Yahabeebe appeared to be running with speed In reserve, with Hughes sitting quite still on her, but her smooth galloping carried her swiftly to the end of a sensational gallop. Yahabeebe, though very brilliant, needs a lot of work to bring her to her best. Sea Hornet shaded her in a mile gallop at Trentham on Saturday, but she benefited from that run and her trainer knows from experience that she will not need any more work at. speed before her race on Saturday. Yahabeebe has not raced beyond a mile, and she has to run 11 furlongs on Saturday. Many gallopers of her type have run themselves out before they get that far in a test for stamina, but Aucklanders who saw her toy with her five opponents in the King’s Plate, of one mile, at Ellerslie, on January 1, believe that she will not find the distance of the Trentham Stakes beyond her. She won the King’s Plate easing up by seven lengths, yet ran the distance in Imin 35sec.

Her race rider, G. F. Hughes, would make no predictions toddy about Yahabeebe’s prospects of running out 11 furlongs strongly enough to win the Trentham Stakes. "I won’t commit myself, but she is wonderfully brilliant, and is now ready to run the race of her life,” Hughes said after this morning’s trial.

Conditions for Speed There was little fast work this morning, but those tested for speed had conditions to suit them.

Resemblance (W. L. Aitken) beat Nuffield (W. A. Smith) by a length over a mile, run in Imin 43 2-ssec. The last half-mile was run in 53sec and the last three furlongs in 39sec. Resemblance will have his first race at the meeting in the Summer Handicap on Saturday.

This four-year-old Instinct gelding won the Grandstand Handicap at Awapuni on December 21, and the Wairarapa Cup on January 1. At his only start since, he was fourth

Olympic Flame (N. Hoy) sprinted seven furlongs in Imin 33 3-ssec and r 53 3-ssec for the last half mile. This i Cassock filly was brought to the s North Island in company with Teaka - by the Riccarton trainer, W. A. Welt ton, earlier in the month, but has not raced on the trip. ? _ Benefit From Race j Froth (C. H. Mackie) sped over _ six furlongs in Imin Msec, the last - o2 ur ta *? sec - and th « fi nal three in I ?? s , ec - 111,8 mason’s New Zealand s Oaks winner appears to have bene- . fited from her race in the Telegraph 1 Handicap last Saturday. * The Wingatui two-year-old, Min- * glow (R. J. Skelton), did not have to do her best to record 49 2-ssec . ?P P hal£ a mile ' and 35 4-ssec for the last three furlongs. Minglow had a setback after her arrival at Trentham, and was taken out of the Wellington Stakes field last Satur- * day. She appears to have made a ' good recovery and could be a match H l ® best of the other two-year-1 ing ° n final day ° f the mcet " ’ Cardinal King (N. L. Hoy) was , not after time while running half a ' ln 5 4860 . and the last three furlongs in 39 3-ssec. He faded 1 slightly to fourth in the Telegraph ■ Handicap, after leading into the last furlong, but was close to the win1 ner. Lorica. ! Picaroon (C. H. Mackie) sped home from the three furlongs in 35 3-ssec, ; and did his work well. He has been lightly raced and won his first two * races this season. Fondu (P. T. Ryan) sprinted three furlongs in 36 4-ssec. Lennox Boy , (W. T. Day) joined him for the last 1 two. Fondu, a brown colt by Tauloch from Diana Ogue, trained at Ha- ! were, was a good fourth in the Pencarrow Hack Handicap on the first day of the meeting. On the plough, Bugle Boy (W. D. ■ Wylie) sprinted half a mile in 52 sec. He will have his first start at the Wellington meeting in the mile , Thorndon Handicap on Saturday. The last time he raced at Trentham he won the Fearce Handicap, beating some top-flight milers. He was not at his best when campaign, ed at the Auckland Cup meeting. On the two-year-old track, Routine (W. I. Johnson) sprinted three furlongs in 40 2-ssec.