TROTTING Langdon set to win Thames double

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33878, 25 June 1975, Page 8

TROTTING Langdon set to win Thames double

"The Press” Special Service/

AUCKLAND.

Hie Cambridge reinsman. John Langdon, who is temporarily in charge of Charlie Hunter’s team, looks to have a great chance of winning the T.A.B. double at the Thames Trotting Club’s meeting at Alexandra Park tonight.

He has Kenwood Fair. Blazing Boa. and Nadala in the Junction Mobile Stakes, the first leg, and Surete and Dundee Lad in the Salutation Mobile Pace. The prospects of Kenwood' Fair and Surete look particularly good. Langdon will drive them. It is the last meeting of rhe season and, as happened last year. Hunter and Roy Purdon are having a tremendous tussle for the trainers' premiership. Hunter, with 40 wins, took the title last season by a single point from Purdon’. he cannot improve his score of 67 this term but Purdon, who is one behind, has a team of six engaged. Victory for Kenwood Fair would be well deserved. He looked very unlucky toi finish only third on the first night of the Auckland Club’s

meeting last week — he was] subsequently promoted to * second — and was a game second to the smart filly Classiebawn on the second night. In Or Out looks the main obstacle to success for Langdon. The winner of the New . Zealand Oaks, she romped 1 home on the second night of . - the A.T.C. meeting. The op--1 position this time is a good deal stronger but In Or Out . looks above average. ' Black Pan, Lordling, Marlborough Miss. Blazer Boa, and Classic Move, will also' be well backed. Surete is a ready-made) ■ favourite for the second leg. i After winning a double at ■ Wellington over Queen’s Birthday Week-end. he , finished sixth on the first i night of the A.T.C. meeting and finished at a great rate! to run Al Summer to a nosei last Saturday. if His chief opposition may: come from Cleao’s Brigade; and Royal Warrior.

t Selections;— 4 p.m. — Pioneer Mobile Stakes.—First division: Halter Prize, Stormy Night. Second division: Windy Grove, Captain Pete. 640 p.m.—Golconda Mobile Trot: Manawanui. Hard Winter, Kiwi Gentleman. 7.10 p.m.—Coromandel Mobile Pace: Sparkling Loch, Vai Trust, Prestatyu. 7.40 p.m.—Warwick Mobile Pace: Direct Poise, Topsv j Smith, Reve Fille. O.IS p.m.—Junction Mobile i Stakes: Kenwood Fair, In Or Out, Classic Move. 030 p.m.—lmperial Trot: i Saint Oavid, Mobile Land, Van ‘ Lome. ♦25 p.m.—Salutation Mobile Pace: Surete, Cleao's Brigade, Royal Warrior. 10.5 p.m.—Cornwall Arms Mobile Pace: Royal Best, Miss • Pix, Soldier Blue 10.35 p.m.—Lady Bowen ■ Mobile Pace: Adopted. Royal Junior, Maggie's Express. I The fields with form for the ’ T.A.B. double are:— JUNCTION MOBILE STAKES I $1800; three and four-vear-olds; j 2200 m i 0793 Lord Jodasc i3i Itj

2000 Namu Girl (5) It 3522 Kenwood Fair <6> It 7706 Glenfinnan (7) It 0038 Eden's Brother ,8; It 7070 Shavem (91 It 1584 Lordling (10 It 0763 Black Pan ill) It 5462 Blazer Boa (12) It 0681 Marlborough Miss (13) It 2771 In Or Out (18) It 6646 Classic Move <l6l It 4300 Nadala (17) It 1405 Halcyon <1) It Scratched: Fallonaze, Lord Amanda. Nelson Adios. Hamish Hanover. SALUTATION MOBILE PACE $1650; C2; 2700 m. 9088 Mullarney (2) It 3200 Cleao's Brigade (3) It 6000 Anew 41 It 1)064 Blue Spark <5) it 865" Sabawl (6> It 0017 Esto Scott (7) It 5557 Sonola (8) It 1540 Dawn Prince i9> It 1162 Surete (13) It 9591 Klldrummy (14i It 3216 Saliy Morris (16> It; 5703 Royal Warrior (18) Iti 4334 Dundee Lad (15) HI 5230 Scottish Rain (171 It j Scratched: Columbia Frost, I frosty Peterson. Rajah Khan,; Warsaw Song.