Scottish Foil shows speed in trial

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33065, 4 November 1972, Page 8

Scottish Foil shows speed in trial

"The Preu" Special Service AUCKLAND. The Cambridge colt, Scottish Foil, for which a late fee of $5OO was paid to get him into the New Zealand Derby at Addington Raceway, provided the highlight of trials at Alexandra Park on Thursday. He went away on the wrong foot in the main barrier trial and lost at least 50 yards. Yet he finished second—a length behind Caledonian Garrison—after the last half-mile off the front had been run in 59 3-ssec. Scottish Foil was about seven lengths from the leader. Caledonian Garrison, at the half-mile so his time must have been about Msec. When told of the time, Scottish Foil’s driver. J. W. Langdon. said he was not surprised. • He can run a half in 58sec, all right, he said “He needed a good run, but not a hard one, and that’s what he bad. I didn’t push him.” Scottish Foil has had four wins (the last three in succession) and four placings from nine starts this season and, with Final Decision. will give the north powerful representation In the *17.000 Addington classic on November 18. Royal Forbes, one of the north’s big hopes in the main races for trotters, at the cup meeting, raced in second place, without a trail, to the two furlongs. His driver, H. Purdon, who will handle him at Addington. then allowed him merely to run along when the challenges came, and he finished sixth. “There was no point in knocking him round at the pace they' were going." Purdon said after-

wards. “I was very pleased with the way he went. The run should top him off nicely for Addington.”