Dave’s Gift too good
Dave's Gift made the efforts. ( of the others look very ordinary!, when he won the Rangitata High-1 j weight on his home track at! Washdyke yesterday. Dave’s Gift failed in the cor-! responding race at the Hororata! meeting at his previous start,' but yesterday he was allowed to get away to a handy lead on the I home turn and lasted by half a I length from Jeanie Park, his only! challenger. Betters had an immediate set-p back. The favourite, Fair Mys-I, tery, emerged from his stall I! eight lengths behind the second-!'. last runner and did well to! finish fifth.. I Abdi Cat, Fair Mystery's best-1 < backed rival, was fourth, only ail neck from Chota, which had | ] tired into a gap after disputing H the lead with Dave’s Gift to the I) three furlongs. I< A change in tactics with li Watchman did not achieve anything worth while. A front run-’< ner in most of his races, he was . ridden in behind this time and I beat only one. t
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33110, 28 December 1972, Page 6
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