Cochrane near 1000 tally

Press, 11 July 1980, Page 1 (Supplement)

Cochrane near 1000 tally

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PAUL MEIN

i Rex Cochrane, of Gore, i trained his first winner when ’ Cogitation won the 1954 j Grand National Hurdles. He , stands to boost that tally I to 1000 at the Waimate Dis- ! trict Hunt Club’s meeting I tomorrow. I Cochrane’s lifetime wins tally now stands at 998, just I two away from joining the I small number of New Zea- ' land trainers to have bettered I 1000.

Three times winner of the trainers’ premiership, Cochrane will have a 14-strong team in action tomorrow, including the speedy youngster Palimony; Folay, the topweight and likely favourite for the Rattray Memorial Steeplechase; El Burro, a form runner in the Hunter Handicap; and Deep Mystery. Deep Mystery will run in the Dominion Breweries Handicap, the first leg of the Waimate Hunt Club’s double, for the third time tomorrow. The hard-wearing eight-year-

? old was beaten by a neck by ■ Watelse two years ago and ■ ’failed by a neck again when -I second to Hasuka last year. r| Palimony, yet to be unplaced after only three starts, ?!is the topweight in the 1 second treble leg, the Cochi rane Memorial. The Royal r Randwick filly was an im- . pressive winner at Wingatui ) last month and was a fine s third behind Syrie Boye at ? Washdyke last start. , Cochrane also has form . runners in the first and - third legs of tomorrow’s

T.A.B. treble. Wayleggo, the topweight in the fe Waimate Steeplechase, won the Riverton Steeplechase in April. Super Guy won the Waimate ’chase for Cochrane two years ago and beat all but Deep South in the race last year. El Burro will be the Gore; trainer’s big gun in the third, leg, the Hunter Handicap. The three-year-old halfbrother to Najeeb and El Towk capped a run of fine form with an attractive win at Oamaru in May.