TROTTING GAY ROBIN SHOULD DO BEST IN CLASH
Bid To Make Amends In Plains Handicap The clash between Gay Robin, Lady Charles and Bluff in the Plains Handicap at Addington Raceway tonight could be one of the features on the second night of the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club’s Easter meeting.
Gay Robin will be trying - to make amends for an unlucky defeat last Saturday night and Lady Charles and Bluff will both be trying to improve winning records at the meeting. Gay Robin and Lady Charles will start from the. back mark of 24 yards and Bluff, which has gone up a class, will be one of 11 on the limit. Lady Charles recorded an outstanding performance in the Bryndwr Handicap last Saturday night. She came
right from the back in the last three furlongs and won going away. Gay Robin was one of Lady Charles’ Bryndwr Handicap rivals. He was also one of the
tal, Smoke Screen and the North island visitor Anarca Direct are other sound stayers on the limit capable of adding interest to the finish. Tonight’s double will be on the Easter Cup (Third Heat) and the Reta Peter Handicap. Lordship, Vanderford, and Gay Reel will be among the strongest fancies in the first leg. Harbour Light, Front Line and Flaming Way might be the best of the trotters in the Reta Peter Handicap. The Easter • Cup (Fourth Heat) will be another major attraction. Orbiter will probably be the popular fancy in this event, j The. forecast is for continued fine weather so the track will be fast.
tail-enders three furlongs out but was sandwiched between two other runners and had nowhere to go. It was very late in the race before he could make any progress at all. Under the circumstanes his close seventh was a meritorious effort. If luck in the running goes against the back-markers then victory will probably, go- the way of Bluff, a proven twomiler. He. was.an impressive winner over this distance in the Rattray Handicap last Saturday night • Central Range, Sentimen-
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Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30396, 21 March 1964, Page 7
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