Brilliant win in Stakes
! "The Press" Special Service i ’ DUNEDIN Take Your Leave gave a brilliant performance tff stop the run of success of the hot favourite. Top Secret, in the Cham 1 pagne Stakes, the feature race for two-year-olds at 'Wingatui >es,!terday. '! Take Your Leave, which had '(been placed in two of his previous three races, is trained bv '[his owner-breeder, G. B Thom'son, at Mosgiel Park ’ A strongly built, colt bv Gate 'Keeper from Subdual. Take Your ’lLeave is closely related to the 1969 New Zealand Cup winner. ,!: Middy. ; When A. K. Robinson bounced ' Top Secret out to a commanding ’■ lead, D. Reed on Take Your ' Leave set out to trail the Melia'’ filly. Take Your Leave was still 1 giving the favourite several j’ lengths start commencing the latt 200 metres, but he wore her down I to win by » nose. B Top Secret, which.' bad been "unbeaten in her previous three .'i races, found the top-weight of ’[s7 just too much, but she fought "back gamely when the colt chai 1 lenged. In a gap of six lengths, King ’.’ Willy, a gelding by Whistling , iWillie from Belfie. having his . first start, made up ground !<’ r ‘.' third ahead of Master Flight, n
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Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33418, 27 December 1973, Page 6
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