HARD TO OPPOSE KENANN

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33792, 14 March 1975, Page 9

HARD TO OPPOSE KENANN

Kenann and Guest Star are expected to carry off rich prizes lor Takanini stables at Trentham tomorrow.

Kenann will be a dominating favourite for the $16,000 New Zealand St Leger Stakes after his fluent win on the first day of the meet ing.

And Guest Star, which brought off a big surprise in the St Leger a year ago, is expected to bring off a topweight’s victory in $14,000 H. R. Chalmers Stakes. Kenann’s Trentham record this year is two wins and a third from three starts.

He showed he had 1 sharp speed in running third in Mansingh’s Wellington Stakes, 1600 m, on Welling ton Cup day, but was really in his element in winning the longer Wellington Derby over a rain-affected track two days later. Again last Saturday he showed his qualities in the wet with a convincing win over 2200 metres in the President’s Handicap. Guest Star was one of, Kenann’s beaten rivals last Saturday. He never got into the clear from a tight spot on the inside, but everything about his appearance, and the improvement he has made with that race, leaves one with the conviction that tomorrow he will at last break through for that first win al 3200 metres. Such a victory only eluded him by inches in the Wellington Cup in January. As usual it will be left to Grey Way to supply the biggest share of South Island interest. He is top-weight in the Hutt Handicap, second 'eg of the T.A.B. double. It! might be a mission imposiible for him if the track is toft or worse, but if the >rey gets firmish footing he ■ould round off a topweights’ double.

If conditions are against Grey Way, Tiptoe should win. Such a win would be popular after some meritorious placings, one of them a second a nose from Gold Ducat, in the Thompson Handicap last week.

By

J. J. Boyle