Two on end for Rocky Leigh
(Special correspondent) Dunedin Rocky Leigh made the highlyregarded Jim Bob look ordinary in winning the C. D. Cochrane (Memorial Handicap at the Waiimate Hunt Meeting on Saturday. . Jim Bob went clear at the 800 m with Rocky Leigh handy. Rocky Leigh, alongside Jim Bob at the straight entrance, mastered him easily and won easing down, winning bv a length and a quarter. On breeding and ability. Rocky Leigh could well be classic material for Mr and Mrs Joe Brown. The magic of the Ashburton trainer. Jim Lalor, and his apprentice David Walsh, rubbed off on Ribeiro when the seven-year-old gained his first win for two years. The Lalor-Walsh team have been in fine form during the last two months but Ribeiro had been off the winning list since he won the Redcliff Handicap at the 1974 Waimate Hunt meeting. He is raced by Mr Tunny Williams a Greymouth publican and Lalor’s brother Tom, who has also enjoyed fine success this (winter as the owner of Butch and Great Blaze and as trainer of Binkie.
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