Form runner for young new rider at Oamaru

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34106, 19 March 1976, Page 1 (Supplement)

Form runner for young new rider at Oamaru

By

J. J. Boyle

Brent Lee, the 15-year-old son of the former Riccarton trainer Gary Lee, will start his race riding career at Oamaru on Monday, and will partner the form runner Rich Mahal in the second leg of the T.A.B. double. The runner-up in the highweight at Ashburton on Tuesday. Rich Mahal, was one of few to gallop on the plough at Riccarton yesterday. With

Lee up, Rich Mahal ran in from the 600 metres in 40.8. Liberal, an acceptor for the Empire Handicap No. 1 at Oamaru, was keen to quicken while running 800 m in 52.6. After a useful fifth at Riccarton last time out. and a win at Kurow at New Year. Liberal will not be the least of the chances over 1400 metres at Oamaru. Barrier trials from the 1000 metres on the outside of the course proper were contested by several two-year-olds, open-class, and lower-grade horses. Te Pango Nui showed he

• was well advanced in pre- ■ paration for another cam--1 paign in winning the heat for the better-performed run1 ners. He won by a neck from ‘ Five Grande; then there was ' a gap to Wiudvale Boy. > Hebrides, an unraced halfbrother to the Invercargill Gold Cup winner Coorabin, : won one of the trials for two-year-olds by three-quarters of (a length from Shifnal Rose. ! Hebrides is to race at Neilson, Shifnal Rose is engaged | in the Brydone Maiden (Stakes at Oamaru. where she will be ridden by the success, (ful North Island light-weight, (Brent Thomson Crimp, a Sovereign Prince (colt from Ross Simpson’s stable, won the first heat for I two-year-olds from Stony Topez and Sinn Fein. His Gesture, which did his (two-year-old racing last sea(son from the Dowling stable (at Wingatui. and is now prepared by Ray Harris at Tua(hiwi. v.un the first heat for

maidens from Nurse Onasstsr and Foxflow. His Gesture (ChariclesMaybeso) was runner-up in three of his five starts in his first season.