Plans for Balmerino
NZPA London The New Zealand galloper, Balmerino, looks destined for an early-season clash with Irish star, Alleged, over the same Paris course on which Alleged beat the New Zealand entire last year.
Balmerino — a strong-finishing second to Alleged in the rich Prix de I’Arc de Triomphe in October—is being prepared for the $NZ94,000 Prix Ganay at the Longchamp Course on April 30. The race is also believed to be on Alleged's programme. The top British trainer, John Dunlop, who has handled the five-year-old since his arrival in England late in the last northern summer, told the NZPA this week that the Paris date was a “valuable early-season start.”
Balmerino was in top shape at Dunlop's Sussex stables after resting since his fourth in the Washington D.C. International at
Laurel, Maryland, last November. Dunlop said the Trictrac entire would have his first outing of the northern flat racing season in the Earl of Sefton Stakes at Newmarket in mid-April, before travelling to Paris.
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