Lomond Note shapes well

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34106, 19 March 1976, Page 4 (Supplement)

Lomond Note shapes well

, ‘ The Press" Special Service! DUNEDIN. Lomond Note showed he was in the right order to extend his winning sequence at Oamaru on Monday with an outstanding barrier trial at Wingatui yesterday morning. Curds ’N’ Whey shaped well for the Birchwood meeting to- 1 morrow and Indian Girl and Hagen’s Hope were other Oamaru candidates seen to advantage. Loma Lass. Crusade, Bell Flight and Silent Lad also showed encouraging fitness for immediate engagements. The course proper provided fast footing. Lomond Note, which is unbeaten in his three starts in a fros v campaign, returned 1:2.8, for 1000 metres the last 800 in 18.8, when comfortably v inning the class-three heat. Crusade, now trained at Ocean View b> Mrs Barbara Harland, returned a similar time for the 1000 m. the last 800 in 49. when he led for most of the way in the class-one and two heat. Cru-

sade, which will resume at the Otago Racing Club's meeting next Saturday, should derive considerable benefit from the outing. He held off the fast-finishing Leyleigh by a length with half a length to Sharon Jane, which was almost in li-e with Sir

Troubadour, which, is also being i beach-trained by Mrs Harland I Loma Lass finished boldlv to take the class-four and five heat by a length and a half from Curds 'n' Whey, which ran on well. Lonia Lass clocked 49.8 for the 800 m. Silent Lad returned 1:4.2 when he held off the fastfinishing Hagen's Hope in the class-four and five heat over 1000 m, the last 800 in 49.8. I Indian Girl was four lengths clear and drawing away in her heat over 800 m. She returned 1 50.6. Selector won the other heat in 50.8. Belt Flight, winner of the McLean Stakes in October at his lone start, was never off the bit when leading the first heat for two-year-olds home in 51 for 800 m. Plans for him to contest the Manawatu Sires' Produce Stakes were scrapped when he did not satisfy trainer. John Dowling. The Bellborough-Winsome Flight gelding has since picked up and he is likelv to resume at RangiOra on April 12 as a lead up to racing at Riccarton during Easter. Spirited won the other heat for two-year-olds in 52. Richneil finished three lengths clear of Daniel with a gap to Reporter and Battling On after a school over seven steeplechase fences on the course proper