TROTTING Robin Dundee To Come North Next Week

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30810, 23 July 1965, Page 5

TROTTING Robin Dundee To Come North Next Week

Robin Dundee, the Dominion’s leading stakewinning mare this season, will complete her preparation in Canterbury’ for early spring racing. She will be brought north next week by her Gore trainer, J. Walsh.

Walsh may also bring Douglas. During their stay, the horses will be quartered at R. H. Negus’s stables, at Springston.

Tins term. Robin Dundee pained five wins—including a dead-heat for first with Jay Ar in the Grand Final of the Inter-Dominion Championships—and earned £9085 in stakes for her owner, Mr J. W. Hewitt. Her efforts alone gave him fourth place on the list of the season's leading owners.

Since she last raced, Robin Dundee has thrived. “She has done plenty of work but because of the bad winter in Southland she has not had much fast work,” said her trainer yesterday. “The ground has been so heavy that runs at speed have been out of the questior.” Robin Dundee will be entered for the Lightning and National Handicaps at the Grand National meeting next month. Douglas, whose only win this season was in the Renown Handicap at Foritury Park in May, will also get good chances to improve his record next month. He will compete in the August and Improvers’ Handicaps, events which have a 2-15 limit. Robin Dundee is not the only horse forced to come north because of bad weather in Southland this winter. ALREADY HERE R M. Cameron is already at Addington. He came from Wyndham last week with six horses. They were Tactile. Tactus and four rising two-year-olds, all members of D. P Dynes’s stable. Tactile is being prepared for racing at Addington Raceway next month and Tactus for early spring races. As Tactile’s main mission next season is the New Zealand Cup in November, his programme at the Grand National meeting next month is likely to be confined to races with invitation conditions. He already has a 2-9 assessment over all distances. A win in either the Lightning or National Handicaps would not affect his cup rating. There are no classes for

Tactus, a younger halfbrother to Tactile, on the programme for the Grand National meeting. This son of Garrison Hanover won his

way to a 2-17 mark as the result of three victories in the season just ended. He will probably begin his five-year-old racing at the New Brighton meetings in September. The rising two-year-olds in the team include two colts and two fillies. Three are being educated for pacing careers and the other shows natural trotting ability.