RACING TRENTHAM MILE RACE

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28530, 8 March 1958, Page 6

RACING TRENTHAM MILE RACE

Four-Year-Olds May Improve Record

Four-year-olds have won the Wellington Racing Club’s Thompson Handicap 10 times in the last 20 years, and they could improve that record at Trentham today. Four-year-olds in the Wellington Racing Club’s £3OOO mile race are Resemblance, Happv Warrior, Summer Glow, Cheyenne, and Let’s Go.

Resemblance has established his class Over more ground, but Cheyenne and Summer Glow have won mile races at Trentham this summer and Happy Warrior has been successful over seven furlongs. Cheyenne is one of two South Island horses in the field, and has enough ability to improve a good record against the northerners.

Cheyenne won the Farewell Handicap with ease at the Royal Welcome meeting on February 8. Summer Glow was a successful campaigner at Trentham in January. She brilliantly won the Anniversary Handicap and was runner-up to Warwick in the Thorndon Handicap. Three-year-olds have not contested the Thompson Handicap in strength in the last few years, and Desperado (1952) was the last of that age to win. But Salaam and Savage are two first-class light-weight prospects of that age in the field today. No more than 17 runners are expected in the £5OOO Autumn

way Handicap, and the Plunket Nursery Handicap for two-year-

olds are other races of considerable interest on the programme. Lorica was scratched for the Railway Handicap and will run in the Challenge Stakes. The Challenge Stakes will probably be Monogram’s mission also, but no programme had been

announced yesterday for Cardinal King. If Cardinal King runs in the Challenge Stakes, W. D. Skelton will ride Bamboo in the Railway Handicap. Search Warrant and Daysun will not start in the Challenge Stakes.

Devilry was sore after his gallop on Thursday, and was scratched yesterday for the Tinakori Handicap.

Handicap, the last two-mile race of the season for the leading stayers. Yeman and Teaka Yeman and Teaka will probably dispute favouritism. They have met twice at a mile and a half this season, and Teaka has the better record at that distance. Their first meeting was in the Wellington Racing Club Handicap, in which Teaka was second and Yeman sixth. In the St. James’s Cup on February 8 Teaka was second and Yeman fourth. Teaka is being tested for the first time over two miles, but Yeman’s record can hardly be faulted over that distance. It is clear from Yeman’s record that he is much metter at two miles than at a mile and a half. Another victory for Yeman at this distance today would be a triumph for his Takanini trainer C. Jillings, who brought this five-year-old back to racing after what looked a bad breakdown in the 1957 Wellington cup. The weight-for-age North Island Challenge Stakes, the Rail-