Sprint fancy tomorrowthen Cromwell

Press, 24 February 1978, Page 1 (Supplement)

Sprint fancy tomorrow — then Cromwell

By

J. J. BOYLE

Tarrion, a smart Riccar-ton-trained sprinter engaged at Wingatui tomorrow, will also be campaigned at the Cromwell meeting next month. A winner at two of his last four starts, Tarrion will come in for solid support from Canterbury in the Autumn Handicap, second leg of the Otago Racing Club’s T.A.B double tomorrow. Tarrion’s race rider. Kevin Morton, rode the chestnut in nace work on the plough at Riccarton yesterday. Tarrion has not done anything strenuous on the tracks since his good third

I behind Ernest on the first day of the Canterbury 'Jockey Club’s meeting on | February 4. but his trainer, Ray Knight, believes he has idone enough to have him at peak tor his test over 1400 m i Knight also plans to com,oaig' Menaly and possibly Sparrowhawk at Cromwell. | Kevin Morton must be hopeful of success on the Wingatu: nroeramme before he teams with Tarrion tomorrow He will ride the smart Washdyke two-vear-old. Lejano in the Dominion i Handicap, and this stablejtnatc of Grey Way appears 'to be capable of outrunning

the best of the southern youngsters at 1000 m. Latchmi, which beat Lejano over 1200 m at Riccarton earlier this month, will be racing at Nelson tomorrow. The Morrinsville-owned Laura’ Star, a winner at the Nelson meeting last season — he beat Tarrion in a 1400 m race for class 2 and 3 sprinters — has joined the Riccarton stable of Keith Donaldson. He is now an eight-year-old. and has not won this season, but he was placed in a high-weight at Whangarei I early in the season, snd was | fourth over hurdles at RoItorua.