TRENTHAM INQUIRIES

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30575, 19 October 1964, Page 4

TRENTHAM INQUIRIES

Trial Offer’s Run

(N.Z. Press Association) WELLINGTON, October 18. Trial Offer, the fourth favourite, ran badly in the Wellington Guineas and her rider, K. S. Cullen, was questioned by the judicial committee concerning her performance. Cullen said the filly did not race kindly and received a check when Customs weakened about three furlongs from the finish. Trial Offer did not run on from that stage. B. Hayter, the trainer and part-owner, said Trial Offer was very distressed after the race. She was examined later by the club’s veterinary surgeon, who could find nothing wrong with her.

N. E. Eastwood, the rider of Baraboo in the Shorts Handicap, was questioned about his mount running wide at the entrance to the straight. Eastwood said Baraboo was not handling the soft ground and he endeavoured to get better footing wider out. A. H. Eastwood, the rider of Shipmate in the same race, told the committee that his mount was unable to handle the going. Lucky Son (W. D. Skelton), the favourite for the Wainui Handicap, was restless in the stalls and standing back at the start. In attempting to move the horse up, Skelton took a foot out of an iron and at that moment the start was made. Lucky Son, through being bustled early, became unbalanced. - Cornstalk finished at the tail of the field in the Glen Hurdles and after being examined by a veterinary surgeon was found to be slightly lame in a foreleg. The rider, K. A. Thomson, said the horse showed signs of the lameness about half a mile from the finish.

Near the three furlongs in the October Handicap, Sapphire Ring, which was in a good trailing position, weakened quickly and forced Hooplah to give ground and go back on Bairam, which finished up near the tail of the field.

In the last furlong of this race L. J. Hodren had to stop riding Rashid, which finished second, when the horse veered out sharply towards Legatus.

Baldric II Wins Champion Stakes (N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Coppripht) NEWMARKET, October 16. The French-trained Baldric 11, ridden by the South Australian jockey, W. A. Pyers, beat an international field to win the £30,000 Champion Stakes, run over a mile and a quarter here today. The three-year-old colt, owned by the American, Mrs E. Howell Jackson, was scoring his second big success on the English turf this season, as he won the 2000 Guineas classic last April. Baldric 11. a seven-to-two chance, raced to a one length victory over the 13/8 favourite, Linacre, with another French horse, Papaya II (100/8), a further length away third among the nine runners.