National Winner Placed On Flat

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31381, 29 May 1967, Page 6

National Winner Placed On Flat

The Gore trainer, R. J. 1 Cochrane, seldom travels a i team to Waimate without i

meeting with some success, and he improved a good record on the course when he won the Waihao Two-year-old Handicap with Tulson on Saturday. Mr and Mrs C. H. Faul’s Final Court gelding was the only winner for the stable, but a meritorious and highly encouraging minor placing was Game Call’s third in the Morven Handicap, won by Watallan, later in. the day. The seven-year-old Game Call showed he is well advanced in his preparation for another jumping campaign, and he should be thoroughly seasoned for his attempt to win his second Grand National Steeplechase in August Watallan, which had no luck on a campaign at Trentham earlier in the month, was much too smart for the others at a mile and 150 yards on Saturday, pulling away in the last two furlongs to win by four lengths for Messrs W. S. Latimer and J. A.

Mathieson, but there were narrower winning margins in most of the other minor races.

Bonanza Boy, in his second start as a four-year-old for Mr J. D. Gregan, nosed out the former North Islander, Mephisto, in the Waimate County Publicans’ Handicap. Swiss Knight’s winning margin in the Trial Plate, for which he was favourite, was also a nose, and a slow start almost certainly cost the run-ner-up, Our Wyn, victory.