Splendid wins for two-year-olds

Press, 20 December 1978, Page 23

Splendid wins for two-year-olds

Thurber Globe and Elfin, ■ created a good impression; when they were successful !at their first starts at trials i [at Addington Raceway! [yesterday. ! Thurber Globe, a colt by [Lordship from Thurber Lady, ! missed the start and paced } roughly early in his heat, [but he had too much speed for his rivals, winning by a (length from Abba’s Best ,(Hardcraft-Betty Charles), ‘with Wish Me Luck (Good [Chase-Wishful Hanover) a' useful third. , The winner, a member of) [Frank Murfitt’s’ team, is a; (likely type. He paced the) 2000 m in 2min 46.95ec, the, last 800 m in Imin I.6sec. , The pace was extremely [slack in the second heat, but [Elfin rushed up near the 800 m, took charge soon [after, and raced away to win I by 10 lengths. She took I2min 58.9 sec, the last 800 m I in Imin o.4sec. Owned and trained by Bob

i,Negus, she is a solid filly by I Willie Win from Medbury, I both good winners. | In second place was the ' Australian-bred Sebring Neptune (Scotch Luck-Sesa), a member of Derek Jones’s team. Angel’s Pal (Scrappy Wave-Angel Lass) was third. Although conditions were I spendid early, they deteriorated a little, but were by : no means difficult. However, . only four pacers managed to. I qualify, and no trotters were i successful. . The tastest time of 3min 130.35ec was returned by Che! iKavar, a member of I. ; I Shinn’s team. The others to were Span Out, Hanasara and Spangled ' Karen, which struck the : worst of the wind. Triboulet gained a cleari cut win in a B-grade promoi tion race and was the only ; one in this section to be i promoted to a higher class.