SPELL FOR LOCHWOOD
Not Starting In Northern
“The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND, May 28.
Lochwood, the top-weight and a likely favourite, will not be able to contest the Great Northern Steeplechase on Monday. B. L Hillis, who trains Lochwood, said today that all efforts to keep the gelding sound tor the big race had failed. Lochwood had been put out of training. Lochwood began to cause alarm when be bowed a tendon slightly after running at Te Rapa on May 11. He pulled up all right from his one race since, the Taupo Jumpers’ Flat at Rotorua last Saturday, but became lame again on Monday. Hillis brought Lochwood back early this year from a summer spell so as to have him thoroughly prepared for the Great Northern and until just the other week he was full of confidence that the horse would be the hardest to beat.
The Taupo Jumpers’ Flat was Lochwood’s fifth start this year. With a second In the Great Northern Steeplechase and wins in the Wellington Steeplechase and the Er e Riddiford Steeplechase he was a star over the country last winter. Earlier he had been a good winner on the flat and over hurdles.
In the two seasons during übich Hillis has prepared him, Lochwood has won £6015.
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Press, Volume CII, Issue 30143, 29 May 1963, Page 4
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