Harlech Shows Top Form At Trentham

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30804, 16 July 1965, Page 4

Harlech Shows Top Form At Trentham

(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON. Princess Taiaria and Harlech, winners of two of the major races on the first day of the Wellington winter meeting, sprinted keenly on an inside grass track at Trentham yesterday morning. The hurdler Harlech appeared to be going just as well as the Whyte Handicap winner after running half a mile in 53 4-5. the final three furlongs in 39 2-5. It was a good gallop on a heavy track, and it kept the Hastings pair in favour for engagements tomorrow.

Harlech is the top-weight tn ’he Lambton Hurdles and •’rincess Ta’ana is in the (Ins <>w Handicap, seven furlongs •he second leg of the TAB I double A T Jones rode Princess ■ Talaris in vesterdav’s gallop hut W 0 Skelton will be her rider Harlech was ridden yesfer day bv N C. Treweek, who won th? Trentham Hurdles on the Golden Souvenir gelding Shakes (Messent) and Howe Pair (Hercock) appeared to “w evenly matched in a five *'trlon<? trial They recorded V” S-ssne for the last half mile and 39 2-ssec for the Ins' three furlongs Shakes h»s thrived lateiv hut did not run up to his wall form tn the Whvte Han d'can He has ah en»’semen' •r the Onslow Handicap tn morrow Surf Boy (A T Jones' sprinted his half-mile in 55 i fisec the final three fur ■ones in 41 3-ssec He is en taped tn the Crofton Hack ’landican. in which he is the •nn weieht He has not been vorse than fifth in his las’ ■ighi starts frnrn W Me "wan's Pawera stable and is >nv of the brighter orosnectf invint ’he h?r' f snr'n’ers Orental (Hercock) led Karl Hnwe (R J Skelton) hr hree-on»rters of a length end ne h’'f a m'le in 57sec the Inai three furlongs in 42 4-5 <«• Sir R-herf (A T Jones' started with them. bu’ in the going and tenoned away in the straight Oriental is a maiden in M ' Rurridwe’s Hastings team I His record is weak hut he i ni<>M bt* useful Ir very heavy ' joing Form Runner Sir Juvante (Cullen), an-| i J her niembet of the Burrfdge; i’wsm and a form runner in! '•he Crofton Hack Handicap ■ | ecorded 40 2-ssec for the lasi i'hree of four furlongs It was a good gallop in the con ditinns by this Wvandank (elding, a fair fourth in the Wnbum Handicap last Satur dav To Reign (Cairns) and Ringlock (Walters) finished a working gallop by running throe furlongs in 44 3-ssec The Erie Rlddiford Steeple i -base tomorrow will give Ringloek another chance to ■mornve a solid record over country Popoff winner of the hack stieplechase last Saturday lift a working gallop over a mile and was keen to quicken m the home straight He acts well w heavy ground and

should take beating in the Haywards Hack and Hunters' Steeplechase

The little schooling done offered a mixed bag Hello Kinfel (W Wilson) jumped ■ox hurdles cleanly at a good pace, hut Vigour (G Jen kins) shaped poorly in his run over eight Rights He tan (own each jump and jumped slowly Vigour fell at the second last hurdle when leading in ’h( Corunna Hurdles on Wednesday Le Voleur (P Wilson) jumped the six fences on the steeplechase course He was kept to a steady pace but it c eh away when he got in close ai the fourth, the brush near 'hi half-mile Royal Dragoon will have his trst start at the meeting in the Haywards Hack and Hunters’ Steeplechase His 'ast start was In a Hat race for amateur riders at Wanga nui on July 6 and he fin ished second He won over hurdles at Te Aroha in the spring