TRAINER WAITED

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31210, 7 November 1966, Page 6

TRAINER WAITED

Patience Paid Off

When D. V. Pankhurst eame north with Bellbridge last week no rider was engaged for the horse in the Riccarton Handicap. There had been plenty of offers but Pankhurst had decided to wait. His decision not to be hasty paid off, because a day before the race R. J. Skel- | ton accepted the mount. ! Feiramor was to have been 'Skelton’s Riccarton Handicap ! mount. But on Friday morning IT. L. Jennings decided to give I the first day a “miss” and wait | for the Jockey Club Handicap i with the Opaki-traincd miler. Skelton kept Bellbridge in touch with the pace all the way in the Canterbury Jockey Club's £lOOO race. He rode him from a trailing position into the lead early in the run home and he lasted it best to win by half a neck.

i Tara’s Pride was cutting quickly into his Southlandtrained rival’s lead near the end but he had come from far back and had left it too late.

I Carpenter, having his second j race after a spell, ran on strongly in the last furlong to i finish third. He was a length I and a half from Tara’s Pride i and beat Calvados by a length and a quarter. The top-weight Baloo shaped like an early Improver. He finished at a great rate for fifth after being well off the pace till late in the race. Answer To Correspondent.— Wager: There was no double at liotukarara in 1141.