Tatua Back In Form
"The Press" Special Service AUCKLAND. Tatua, an eight-year-old veteran of many important weightfor age races took another at the expense of the cup hopes. Fairfleet. Mac’s Pride and Pell Mell, in the Clifford Plate at Ellerslie yesterday. Pell Mell went so poorly that plans for his cup start were at once abandoned. Tatua won because he raced more kindly than any of his five opponents. His rider, G. F. Hughes, who has won more weight-for-age races than he can remember, settled Tatua in equal last place alongside Pell Mell. He sent him forward as they came to the straight and in a hard battle with Fairfleet won by half a length. Arbroath, clinging to the Inside, took the $4OO for third with hardly anything to spare from Mac’s Pride. Barellan faded from the pacemaking into fifth and Pell Mell was a distant last.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31564, 29 December 1967, Page 4
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147Tatua Back In Form Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31564, 29 December 1967, Page 4
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