RACING CHALLENGE STAKES AT TRENTHAM

Press, Volume CV, Issue 31000, 4 March 1966, Page 4

RACING CHALLENGE STAKES AT TRENTHAM

Peterman Is Picked To Win Tomorrow

Peterman, Rohe Potae and Boodle could manage a spectacular treble for W. C. Winder’s Te Rapa stable at Trentham tomorrow.

The champion three-year-old, Peterman runs in the North Island Challenge Stakes. Rohe Potae is a form runner in the Railway Handicap, and Boodle is a light-weight in the Thompson Handicap.

The combined records of these stablemates at the Wellington Cup meeting in January produced five wins and a second. Peterman won the Anniversary Handicap, the Wellington Derby and the Trentham Stakes. Rohe Potae surprised in the ■Wellington Stakes and then won the Metropolitan Handicap. beating Boodle narrowly. The seven furlongs of the North Island Challenge Stakes is probably short of Peterman’s best distance, but Mr F. C. Johnstone's powerful chestnut combines brillance with stamina, and left no doubt about his sharp speed when he won the Auckland Racing Club’s King's Plate over a mile on January 1. Brilliant Run In winning that weight-for-age race Peterman was officially timed at Imin 35secl

and privately timed Imin 34 4-ssec. Devastation, the runner-up to Rohe Potae in the Wellington Stakes, and a winner over seven furlongs at the Woodville meeting at his last start, may be the best of Peterman’s rivals tomorrow. Any further easing in the track will brighten the prospect of wins for Boodle and Rohe Potae. Rohe Potae will be ridden by G. F. Hughes. The successful light-w'eight, B. F. Andrews, has been engaged for Boodle in the Thompson Handicap, which Is the second leg of the TAB. double. The H. R. Chalmers Handicap, the last two-mile race of the season for the top stayers, is the first leg of the T.A.B. double. Palisade is the only winner at this distance in the field, but it will be his first try over the distance this season. This could be more of an ad-

vantage than anything else when running against some horses which have had strenuous staying programmes. If the track is firm Grand Filou and Bandon should be the best of the northerners. There will be an on-course double on the Plunket Nursery and Tinakori Handicaps.

Good Trial By Sail Away

“The Press” Special Service PALMERSTON NORTH. Sail Away ran his final trial for the H. R. Chalmers Handicap in driving rain at Woodville yesterday, galiloping on broken and wet ground about 24ft from the rails of the course proper. The day's feature gallop was run by Baloo, a fit horse for the Napier Gold Cup. He ran a mile in good style. Sail Away, after working once around at a steady pace, worked into his gallop from the mile and a quarter. Accompanied by Gayemana and Ben Bella, he took Imin 51 2-ssec for the last mile, the final half in 54 2-ssec and the last three in Baloo, which had the use of the track earlier in the session, struck better fiootfng and covered a mile in Imin 47 l-ssec. He was accompanied by Chesterman and Caplin, which were with him at the line. They took 55sec for the last half and 41 l-ssec for the final three. Golden Mist, working alone in the worst of the going, took 53sec for half a mile without having to run near her best. She sprinted her last three furlongs in 39 l-ssee, passing the post under a good hold.