Mellseur holds good form

Press, 7 December 1978, Page 27

Mellseur holds good form

Special correspondent | Dunedin i! M.ellseur will return to. 1 Riccarton on Saturday as a i bright chance in the Hornby ! Handicap, second leg of the [ ■T.A.B. double. A high-weight winner on [ [the course at the New Zea-: land Cup Meeting and run- ! ner up in the Riccarton , Handicap, Mellseur con- [ j tinued her good form in I training when she worked at): Wingatui on Tuesday. She was travelling keenly ; (outside Trelesse after sprint-; ling 800 m in 48.8 s com-) Ipleting a lap on a fast]' plough. Mellseur took 37.2 s i.

I for the final 600 m. .Michael i Mein has been engaged to 1 ride her on Saturday. Boadicea. a candidate for . the two-year-old race at Ric- ; earton, dashed over 800 m I with Cara Dat in 48.7 s the i last 600 m in 37.75. Boadicea. a filly in Cliff Reese-Jones’s stable, made a promising first appearance when third Ito Hunting Cali and Ahbo-j I nito in the Southland Breed- i iers Stakes last month. i Black Melody, which puzzled her trainer, Arthur Di-j . dham by her lack lustre dis-1 j play, at Beaumont on Satur-i day. was paired with Copen ' Ali to run 800 m in 48.95.