Fourth win on end for Windvale Beau?

Press, 15 June 1979, Page 1 (Supplement)

Fourth win on end for Windvale Beau?

By

J. J. Boyle

A good case can be made for at least six horses in the first leg of the Oamaru Jockey Club’s T.A.B. double tomorrow. But it will be possible to be more selective with the second leg.

Windvale Beau, impressive winner of his last three races, will be in the line-up for the Elderslie Handicap and none of the others will

be backed with great confidence to beat him.

Windvale Beau supplied one of the features of the Oamaru meeting last month when he came from last to win a 1200 m class 5 race by a length and a quarter.

He will be running over the same distance tomorrow and his backers will not be daunted if he again settles back in the early running, for he is in a field of handy size.

Charlson, one of the best mudlarks to come out of Southland in the last two or three years, will have a formidable test with top weight and the outside barrier in the first leg, the South Island Brewery Handicap. After winning narrowly over a middle distance at the Winton meeting on Maj 14 he was pointed for a campaign at the Wellington winter meeting. If he wins or runs well tomorrow the big Charicles gelding will certainly heighten interest in his Trentham prospects. Tiva, from Invercargill, and Leopard, from Riccarton, won at the Wingatui winter carnival, and the horses-for-courses devotees will be looking to Ultimate and Lady Belinda for something worth while.

Ultimate was a head from the winner Napiat, and Lady Belinda was another length back third in the corresponding race at Oamaru last month.

Lady Belinda started the present season with a win on this course. One of Ultimate’s five wins as a three-year-old was at Oamaru.

With a chance to freshen since his failure on a heavy

track at the Hororata meeting on May 19, Sir James is capable of forcing his way into the finish.

He showed sprinting prowess fresh up in winning a 1200 m race by four lengths on his home track at Ashburton in March and if he goes into tomorrow’s race at that level of enthusiasm he might run the others ragged.