Four Winners No. 11

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31222, 21 November 1966, Page 4

Four Winners No. 11

The followers of horses carrying saddle cloth No. 11 could not have helped making money at Addington Raceway on Saturday night. The same should have applied to the backers of South-land-trained horses. Four winners in sequence—from the fifth to the eighth races—carried No. 11. Among them was Lin Dor, a Mataurutrained long-shot and a stablemate of Holy Hal, the New Zealand Derby Stakes winner. The Southland province was also represented successfully by Gaylee and Robin Dundee.

Lin Dor, having her first start at the meeting and her first race for nearly two months, outran her sprint rivals in the Flying Handicap. Mr R. Allan’s Flying Song mare was the 11/13 favourite of 14 and paid £2B 4s 6d and £7 19s 6d for a win-and-place.

Lin Dor spurted clear inside the first furlong, widened her lead as she came to the straight and won as she liked by two lengths and a half.

Adorato, third in the running for much of the race but second equal on the home turn, was second by a length from Admire. Admire, which had tracked Adorato nearly a mile but was three wide with him and Vista Abbey, which received the run of the race, on the home turn, beat Vista Abbey by half a head. STRONG FINISH Gaylee, a close second over a sprint distance last Tuesday night, confirmed the worth of that strong finishing run by winning the Harold Logan Handicap at fair odds for Mr A. D. Campbell. Gaylee was a little slow off the mark but M. A. Skinner soon had her in mid-field. In the last furlong Gaylee ran on best wide out on the track and won going away by half a length from Chief Command. Chief Command, the favourite, was far from disgraced. Like Gaylee, he was slow off the mark and was still at the rear with his stablemate, Don Caesar, six furlongs out. He continued a big run to reach the lead inside the furlong but had nothing left to resist Gaylee’s final challenge. Alpine Lady, which tracked the pace-maker, Bill Adonis, to the straight was a head away third, two lengths ahead of Winfield Chief, another close up all the way. CANTERBURY WINNERS Our Debbie, Student, and Powerful Light were winners for Canterbury stables. Our Debbie improved on a sequence of minor placings at the meeting by gaining an all-the-way win in the Dictation Handicap, for which she was the 2/1 favourite.

Our Debbie fought back gamely to beat Milford Nurse, which had been close up all the way and almost on terms with the winner two furlongs out, by a neck.

Seven Nights, one of the longshots, finished strongly from mid-field for third. He was a length from Milford Nurse and beat Direct Globe by three parts of a length. The latter did exceptionally well to finish as close as he did for he looked hopelessly out of it after breaking badly at the start.

Student justified solid backing by winning the Shirley Handicap narrowly for his Belfast ownertrainer, C. S. Donald. R. P. Nyhan had Student on the inside and three places back to the home turn. His chance of victory did not look very bright at the furlong but he found a gap a bit closer to home and dived through to snatch victory in the last stride or- two. Student beat Richard Hanover, which was close up all the way but wide on the home turn, by half a head. Richard Hanover nosed Tryout, second equal and on the outside till the home turn, out of second in the last stride. My Word, which had tried for an all-the-way win, was half a neck away fourth. FIRST AND SECOND Powerful Light and Medico, both members of J. Grant and D. G. Jones’ Templeton stable, battled for honours in the Churchill Handicap and Powerful Light won by half a head. Powerful Light, one of the slower beginners, came from far back to take up the chase inside the last furlong and wore down his stablemate in the last stride or two.

Medico, which had tracked the pace-maker. Light Silk, to

the straight and went clear inside the last furlong, beat Battlefield, third on the Inner till the home turn, by a length and a half. Indecision, one out in the fourth line for most of the race was fourth in a similar gap. He raced with his tongue over the bit. La Garrison, second equal to the straight entrance. was half a head away fifth, half a length in front of the weakening Light Silk.