Agean Sea one of best in training

Press, 9 May 1979, Page 26

Agean Sea one of best in training

Aegean Sea, one of the c best of the trialists at Ric-i 5 carton yesterday, will have a| change of riders for the Am-Ji berley Racing Club’s Hunt- i I onleigh Lodge Handicap on It Saturday. i Mr Jack Thwaites’s Beau- t fort Sea filly outran Gemastra and Halo over 800 m s on the No. 1 grass yester-11 day, finishing with a lead of >5 two lengths and recordingjs 50. >J Jim Collett, who won on ~ Aegean Sea at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Easter ! meeting, is committed to . ride Double d’Or on Saturday, and Steve Allen will ! ride Aegean Sea. Dee Decree and Rustique, two other members of Peter Jones’s team, also sprinted pleasingly in training yesterday. Rustique reeled off 800 in 49.9, a smart run over easy footing. Dee Decree recorded 1:18 for 1200, and 50 for the final 800. ( Early Riser and Full Stop were shortening stride short ■ of the post in their 1600 m, which took 1:44.8, but they > had started at a lively clip to run the opening 800 in ; 50.6. New Wing, though easing I in the last few strides, com- ; pieted 1200 in 1:19, the last . 800 in 52.6. Ernest, which resumes at the Amberley' meeting, re-

corded 1:19.3, the last 800 in 52.5. Keeko and Always finished 800 on terms in 50.4. Keeko will have his first test against class one horses in the Starky Memorial at the Amberley meeting. Thomas Mellay worked away from the 1600 m, and ran his last 800 easily in 56.8. He will make a fresh start at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting next

week. He will do his future racing on lease for Mrs Kathy McCann, wife of the chestnut’s Riccarton trainer. Captain Scott finished his work by running 800 in 55, and Dirk followed in 55.2. Lazy Loot returned 52.4. Swift Leigh appeared to be finding a little more than Biddy Magee ending 200 in 1:20,4, the last 800 in 52.6. Panic sprinted from the 800 in 52.5. |