Wingatui Winner Not Starting At Washdyke

Press, Volume C, Issue 29706, 27 December 1961, Page 6

Wingatui Winner Not Starting At Washdyke

Brown Watch will not rvn in the Christmas Handicap at Washdyke today. This was decided after he won the December Handicap on the

second day of the Dunedin Cup meeting at Wingatui yesterday. The trainer. J. C. Hobbs, said Brown Watch would be scratched for the Christmas Handicap. Brown Watch shaded Heart s Pride and Solus in an interesting finish to the December Handicap. Thi» was his first start since the Greymouth meeting, where he just missed a double. Brown Watch trailed alongside Heart’s Pride for a good way yesterday, and the latter gave the Oamaru gelding most opposition at the end. Solus was just behind Brown Watch on the home turn, „nd made a bid for the lead going to the furlong. He finished clear of the win favourite. Gay Fox. which had a good position early but drifted going to the half mile. Melodic was only a fair fifth a length clear of Matlock, which was squeezed back to the tail of the field on the inside near the half-mile. Cheyenne finished at the tail of the field after disputing the lead for a good way. He went down badly in his preliminary and did not run with anything like his usual dash on the hard track.