CASTLE FLIGHT IMPROVED

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31539, 29 November 1967, Page 4

CASTLE FLIGHT IMPROVED

"The Press” Special Service DUNEDIN. Castle Flight, which hasbeen racing well below the form which won him two James Hazlett Gold Cups at Wlrigatui, galloped more in keeping with his true ability when he worked in a hood at Wingatui yesterday. The Knight’s Romance gelding, noted for his indifferent temperament, will race in a hood when he contests the President’s Handicap, the second leg of the Beaumont Racing Club’s T.A.B. double on Saturday. Permission to-do this was granted yesterday by the stipendiary steward, Mr J. M. McCulloch.

Other Beaumont candidates J to show up in their work in- z eluded Sailor’s Flight, Mighty b Peak, Castle Gregory, and Baal Hanan. & The fast work was held on the inside grass and the plough. 1 Working on the grass, Castle Is Flight (J. F. Carvalho) sped over five furlongs in Imin 3sec, J the first two furlongs in 24 J 2-ssec. Over the same ground, ® Sailor’s Flight (J. F. Carvalho) f took Imin 4 2-ssec, the first two f furlongs in 25 2-ssee. El Tegrave (D. Adams) and 1 Derstan (B. Lott) ran half a | mile in 53sec, the opening fur- * long in 13sec. $ Castle Gregory (W. McEwan), I! which has thrived since his last-start win in the Caltex Handicap at Invercargill last fl week, was galloping well along- ® side his stablemates. Justice & (R. McKissock) and Mystic Rose i (A. K. Robinson) in a smart 1 sprint over three furlongs In || ON THE PLOUGH J On the plough. Mighty Peak & (J. R. Dowling) impressed by || the manner in which he dashed H over three furlongs in 38 S-ssec. H The Kurdistan mare -was i| suffering from a seasonal complaint when she finished second « last in the -Caltex Handicap at 1 Invercargill last week. Glefidaloch (B. J. Anderton! B and Festival Queen (A. E. Gye), ran five furlongs in imin ssec. Baal Hanan (B. J. Anderton) $ and Left Over (A. K. Robinson) § went fast over the early stages taking 37 4-ssec for the first B three furlongs and completed six furlongs in Imm 20 4-ssec.