LIGHT MOOD IN WORK

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30176, 6 July 1963, Page 5

LIGHT MOOD IN WORK

Preparing For National "The Press" Special Service INVERCARGILL, July 5. Light Mood, which went amiss earlier in the season, is no-w a • member of D. 'P. Dynes’s Wyndham team, which at present also in-

dudes Deft, Cardiogram. Jack Super and the rising two-year-old, Hal Tryax-Tac-tics filly. Most members of the team are being prepared for early spring racing, including the National meeting at Addington next month. Light Mood has proved himself one of the best pacers in his class and with average luck he would have taken the New Zealand Cup rating before this He is now on a 4min ?6sec two-mile mark and could make cup company before November. He did not race a great deal last season, but was a winner over 13 furlongs at Addington in November when he beat Robin Dundee. His last start was at Forbury Park in January when he ran Lordship to threequarters of a length in a qualifying heat of the Dunedin Festival Cup. Light Mood was showing signs of soreness after that race and he was put aside. The trouble has not worried him since being put back into work. If Light Mood trains on as expected, he may accompany his stablemate. Tactile, to the Inter-Dominion Championship series in Melbourne in February. < Cardiogram. like Light Mood." was formerlv trained bv his owner. C. H. G Ir-I vine at Invercargill He failed | to win a race as a four-year- [ old this season, but he was I four times placed in a light I season’s racing. Cardiogram has also struck i his share of bad luck in his] racing since he showed out-; standing promise as a three-' vear-old. An injury when racing at a non-totalisator meeting at Riverton early in his four-year-old season put him out of action for several months. Jack Super and Deft have both been good winners from Dynes’s stable this season Jack Super w-on two races as a sprinter during the season—on a heavv track at New Brighton in September and also at Auckland in February. Deft improved her rating. I considerable during the sea-i son when she won four races,

and has now stepped up into strong intermediate classes The Captain Adios mare is a fine stayer and looks certain to improve her handicap mark early in the new season.