Campbell took sure aim at Trentham sprint

Press, 19 July 1976, Page 20

Campbell took sure aim at Trentham sprint

Awapuni’s Maurice Campbell. Balmerino's partner in a season of spectacular success, found more rich pickings at Trent ham on Saturday. He brought off a notable stable oilnela with the halfbrother? Marenostro and Mareoet'o in the Onslow Hanaicap, second leg of the Wellington Racing Clubs T.A.B. double. Campbel! rode the more heavily-weighted Marebello, which finished four lengths behind Marenostro. the mount of the stable apprentice. Ricky Grant. Had he been a little lighter Campbell would have ridden Hunting Chief, easy winner of the Winter Oats

Handicap, first leg of the, double. His substitute on the; Head Hunter gelding from' Woodville was Des Harris. Marenostro and Marebello! both looked slim chances [ when they drifted from the! start of the Onslow Handi-' cap, but they changed the: complexion of the race with! big runs down the outside of the soggy track. Helped by a 3kg allowance, Marenostro dashed away to win by his wide margin. Marebello. the 2/1 favourite, was Te Pango Nui’s most strongly-backed rival. ; Te Pango Nui was trying; for a third sprint victory at! the meeting, but struggled inj vain under 56kg in the mud I and finished 11th. I Duntroon kept up South Island hopes for longer. He[

was in the leading line to the straight, but could find nothing extra and finished fifth. Like the other races the Winter Oats was low in dramatic content. At eight years Hunting Chief was the veteran of the field but carried stable confidence on the change from holding to loose ground. Last year he was the Winter Oats second to Willem Barendsz. which this time made plodding headway from the back for a distant third. Hunting Chief is trained at Woodville by Noel tales,! who plans to come to Ric-I carton to tilt at Winter Cup J honours with the very prom-; ising Lone Hand.