TROTTING Trial Run At Gore

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30634, 28 December 1964, Page 12

TROTTING Trial Run At Gore

"The Press” Special Service INVERCARGILL. December 27. The appearance of Robin Dundee (F. A. Franks) and Tactile (J. Bond) in a run over an easy mile and a half at the Gore Trotting Club’s meeting on Saturday aroused keen interest. Tactile made the running, with Robin Dundee getting up in the run in to beat him by half a length. The mile and a half was run in 3min 25sec. the last mile in 2min 15sec, the final half in imin 3 3-ssec and the pair sprinted home from the quarter in 30 2-ssec. Robin Dundee and Tactile, which are furthering their preparation for the Inter-Dominion Championships at Forbury Park in February, will run a much stronger trial at Winton tomorrow. It is expected they will run a mile and a half in 3min 12sec under good conditions. The Southland mile and a half record is held by Lookaway at 3min 12 2-sscc. GRAMEL BEATEN (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MELBOURNE, December 27. The trotting idol. Gramel, starting at 7-2 on, was beaten comfortably by the 8-1 chance Sugar ‘n* Spice in the Festival Trotters Free-for-all at the Melbourne Show Grounds last night. Sugar ’n’ Spice (8-1), won by eight yards, with Olympic Torch (25-1) 12 yards away from Gramel in third place. Sugar ’n' Spice ran the distance of about 14 furlongs after a mobile start, in 3min 45 l-ssec. a mile rate of 2min 8 4-ssec, which set a new class and track record, breaking by a second the record established by Gramel in March, 1963. A fortnight ago Sugar ’n’ Spice won the final of the Australasian Trotters’ Championship here, when Gramel finished fourth.