Cracker Day sharp for Sth Canty

Press, 18 July 1979, Page 24

Cracker Day sharp for Sth Canty

Cracker Day will go into’ the first leg of the South | ! Canterbury Hunt Club’s | double on Saturday with al background of solid race: form supported by a good training sprint at Riccarton , yesterday. He pulled away to beat his stablemate, On Tap, by four lengths in their 1200 m trial, run in Imin 19.55, the: last SOOnt in 51.55. They galloped on the No.I grass, which had been eased by rain the night before but still allowed for its usual bewildering number of fast times. Aramis led his three-year-old stablemate. Little Brown 1 :

Jug, by a neck, finishing 800 m in 495. < ' Aramis will resume in the i Brabazon next week and I I Little Brown Jug will be ! pointed for the Cashmere ! Plate. I Midknight sprinted 800 m . down the back in 51s. Hi 1 Roona, a rival candidate for the Claremont Handicap at Washdyke, ran the 800 m in) 50.85. Maurice Thornley has,: I been engaged for this quick: ifront-runner this week. ; Black Damson led His Advice by half a length, finishing 800 m in 48.25. Ernest recorded 49.65, a performance equalled by Longsin, which will not be the least of lhe I chances in the first maiden ■event at Washdyke. I

Leopard and Conray, two 1 of the earliest workers, finished 800 m on terms in 51.45. Miss Bid recorded 53.45, Scotch Nip and Ben Ahee 5235, and Pompous Prince 51s when finishing clear of Elysian Light. Rockford, whose recent racing should have fitted him I for a Riccarton campaign, icame up with 51.6 s for his 1800 m and Firpo followed in 535. Palanga finished a run over six hurdles clear of Try Two, which ran along easily in a small gap throughout. Borodino started with them but was pulled out after jumping four flights satisfactorily.