Star Belle, Terrific Picked At Trentham

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31322, 18 March 1967, Page 7

Star Belle, Terrific Picked At Trentham

(From Our Own Reporter) WELLINGTON. Terrific, winner of the New Zealand St. Leger a year ago, should today have a brilliant successor on the honours list for the Wellington Racing Club’s staying classic.

While Star Belle goes after St. Leger honours at Trentham today Terrific should keep a good record “moving” by winning the President’s Handicap under top-weight of 9-6.

Both Terrific and Star Belle were winners in the mud on the first day of the Wellington autumn meeting last Wednesday. Both won easily, but It was their class rather than any special aptitude for the going that shone through their performances.

Nearly everyone has high hopes for a firm track today

to put extra colour and quality into a high-class racing programme. In any conditions the St. Leger should be something of a romp for Star Belle, but Terrific should have something more than token resistance from Udare and Bardowie, two Waikato horses affected by the change in weather last week-end. There must have been many occasions when G. F. Hughes has felt less hopeful

of riding the winners of both legs of a T.A.B. double at Trentham. Hughes will ride Carlsberg in the Suburban Handicap, and it is a combination right in form on all counts. Carlsberg is having his first start at the meeting, but his last three starts have produced a win, a second and a third.

Prince Hagen, second to the brilliant High Glee last week in conditions not to his liking, should be the pick of Carlsberg’s rivals. Two-year-olds are catered for in the £3OOO Wakefield Challenge Stakes. Most of them will be on trial at seven furlongs, but Patrida, R. J. Skelton’s mount, has given

every promise of making the grade and carrying off a rich first-season prize.

TRENTHAM PROSPECTS. —Udare (top), one of the strongly fancied runners in the President’s Handicap, first leg of the T.A.B. double at Trentham today. Serena (bottom), a capable sprinter engaged In the second leg, the Suburban Handicap.