Southerners’ Campaigns

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30737, 29 April 1965, Page 5

Southerners’ Campaigns

"The Press” Special Service INVERCARGILL. The Southland trotting trainers. L. F. Norman, A. W. Skinner, H. W. Cox, J. Walsh, C. C. Scott, D. P. Dynes, C. H. Baynes. A. R. Townley and D. M. Kerr, who have teams engaged at Forbury on Saturday night, will campaign their horses further north, in Otago, Canterbury and Wellington. Grand Finale, Free Style and Little Jack are other individual runners which are to compete on the North Otago and Canterbury circuit. Next Day and Dorothy Jean have been consistent performers for Townley this season and will be well supported in their Forbury engagements. He also has Hal’s Choice in the Hayfield Handicap. These three will compete at Timaru and Ashburton next month. Robyn Lea will race at Oamaru. and Diamond Jay completes the team Townley will take north. Travelling H. W. Cox had six horses balloted out at Forbury. His three trotters, Glenside, Rimrock and Autocrat, were eliminated from the Bayfield Handicap. Prince

Garry (Flying Handicap) and Omar On and Anterior (Renown Handicap), were also .eliminated. They will be taken through for the second night; and possibly on to Timaru and Ashburton. Poupette, Glenside, Trysail, and the two-year-old, Black Sea, are to go on for the Wellington Trotting Club s meeting on Saturday week. L. F. Norman will take a team of six to Oamaru, Timaru and Ashburton. The)' are Southern Rev. Ardgour, Nurse Brigade, Karen Brigade, Ferndale Prince and King High. He has Southern Rev and Merry Morning in at Forbury. Scott's Team C. C. Scott will take Stylish Moccasins to Forbury with his stablemates, Le Chant and Donald Dundee, for the second night. Donald Dundee and Le Chant are likely to be the respective favourites for their races, the Forbury Handicap and the Dunedin Trotting Handicap on the opening night. Scott withdrew Donald Dundee at the last moment from his Gore engagement because of the heavy track. Donald Dundee may contest the three-year-old race at Ashburton. Le Chant and Stylish Moccasins are likely to go on to Oamaru, and will be put aside after that. Grand Finales programme depends bn his Forbury showings. He requires to win to be eligible for the main race at Oamaru the following Saturday. The Gore Two-year-old Handicap winner. Free Style, is to contest the Oamaru Juvenile Guyfa, John, Raven Song and Rosonga, members of C. H. Bayne’s team, have been nominated for the Oamaru and Wellington meetings. It has not been decided where they will race. Racing at Addington A. W. Skinner has John Espie, Calm Autumn, Gaylee and Betty’s Song nominated for Oamaru and they will also go on to Canterbury. Robin Dundee will have her

next start at the Wellington Trotting Club’s meeting. Her atgMemates, Whisky Galore and Douglas, will race at Oamaru, Timaru and Ashburton. D. M. Kerr has Leyava In at Forbury, but she is not included among those he will take to Oamaru, Timaru and Ashburton. He intends taking Procella, Beguile and Query north. A trip to Wellington and Auckland tor Tactile will depend on how he comes through his Forbury race; Deft is almost certain to make the trip. D. P. Dynes also has Herby Tryax and Tactus nominated for the Wellington meeting. However, it is doubtful if either will go. Our Fortune Sold "The Press” Special Service INVERCARGILL. Our Fortune, a two-year-old colt by Flying Song from Shirleen, has been sold by his Invercargill owners, Messrs G. A. Thomas and R. A. Harper, to go to Melbourne. The Victorian studmaster, Mr R. A. Parker, who stafids the imported sire, Smart Set, was in Invercargill last weekend and bought Our Fortune on behalf of a Melbourne client. The colt was to have contested the Gore Two-year-old race, but was withdrawn from that event on Saturday. Our Fortune, which has left a good impression in juvenile trials this season, has had only one race appearance—in the Kindergarten Stakes at Wyndham on March 6. Our Fortune will leave by boat for Australia next month. Mr Parker also bought several brood mares in Canterbury, and they are due to arrive in Southland within the next few days. It is intended to mate them with New Zealand sires.