RACING Amazing Sprints Well And Fit For Trentham

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28792, 13 January 1959, Page 4

RACING Amazing Sprints Well And Fit For Trentham

Amazing brilliantly sprinted five furlongs on the outside of the course proper at Riccarton yesterday.' Ridden by the apprentice P. Graham, she sped over the last half mile in 48 l-ssec.

It was an outstanding solo trial by this two-year-old Pictavia filly which may match the best of the northerners in the Fitzherbert Handicap at Trentham on Saturday.

Amazing, a member of C. C. McCarthy’s team, will be ridden on Saturday by the stable apprentice, B. S. Dodds. She will be taken north this evening. Cheyenne will not run in the Anniversary Handicap at Trentham on Saturday. He injured a foreleg last Thursday and is making slow improvement. This good miler had set-backs earlier this season, otherwise his record would have probably been a great deal better. Ghana has been sore and. will not run in the Camp Hack Handicap at Trentham. That will leave Riccarton representation to Rustic and Lucky Time. Lucky Time will be ridden by A. H. Eastwood. This was a successful combination at Hororata in December. R. E. Johnstone will take Lucky Time north on Thursday. Other travellers on Thursday will be J. E. Shaw with Purser, and A. S. Ellis with Montreux. Purser Purser, an Anniversary Handicap candidate, will be ridden by B. W. McDonald, and C. T. Wilson will ride 'Montreux in the Pencarrow Hack Handicap. Purser and Montreux were both winners on the second day of the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s summer meeting on December 29. C. T. Wilson will ride Her Ex in the Anniversary Handicap. Her Ex will be taken north this evening with her stablemates. Royal Avon ana Ration Time. Royal Avon has an engagement in the Te Marua High-weight on .Saturday. He will be ridden by G. G. Hampton. Ration Time, another winner at the South Canterbury meeting, will run against the hack stayers on the second day of the meeting. Dunblane, surprise winner of the President’s Handicap at

. Woodville on Saturday—he paid i £125 5s 6d for a win—is a mem- - ber of E. Ropiha’s successful * Woodville team. This was his first glimpse of ; form since Mr E. L. Healy bought . him for 650gns at the dispersal i sale of Mr W. E. Hazlett’s horses ; in Invercargill nearly a year ago. Dunblane is a six-year-old 5 gelding by Callander from Salito. ; He developed fairly good form in 1 hack class two years ago. He . was successful in three successive , starts, all high-weights. Interesting Clash The Wellington Stakes at Trenr tham on Saturday might develop , into a tussle between Gayfair and t Fountainhead. Gayfair came to the end of a . brilliant winning sequence in the 1 Great Northern Foal Stakes at Ellerslie. It was obviously one . of his off days, and is hardly likely to affect his position as the ’ likely favourite. Since the distance of the race was increased to six furlongs in - 1946, three-year-olds have )■ fashioned a better record than the - two-year-olds. 2 Three-year-olds have had eight victories in that time, compared i with five by their younger rivals. ; Successful three-year-olds since s 1946 have been Peter i. Howe, Great Trek, Golden Spa, c Mainbrace, Hush Money, Coler ridge, and Yahabeebe. Golden Spa also won as a two--1 year-old. This year Blonde Sprite will attempt to emulate his t feat Blonde Sprite beat the I three-year-olds, Regal Dignitary . and Stylish Offcer, into the minor places a year ago. She was the ♦ first successful two-year-old since , Ray Ribbon’s year* 1954. £ Surrey Gold and Anand have been the other successful twop year-olds in the race since 1946. r They were both trained at Takanini by F. Smith, who is pre- . paring Gayfair for this year’s r a ce - Gloaming and Desert Gold were two notable earlier winners of the race, which was introduced in 1897 and run that year only over four furlongs.