Powley returns smart trial

Press, 24 September 1980, Page 27

Powley returns smart trial

Special correspondent Dunedin Powley, a Dunedin Guineas candidate, overshadowed other trialists with an outstanding gallop at Wingatui yesterday morning.

Powley sped over 1000 m in 60.6 s on a firm inside grass. She ran the last 800 m in 49.65. Powley should make her presence felt IP the Guineas.

Powley was ridden yesterday by John Albert, an apprentice who has transferred from Cambridge to the stable of Powley’s trainer, Hector Anderton, sen., Michael'Casey has the raceday mount. Syrie Boye, one of Powley’s rivals, worked evenly over 1200 m, in Imin 18.1 s, finishing. on terms with Lamplight. They took 52.4 s for the final 800 m. The Crofter was with them until the 600 m then dropped away. It appears all is not well with him. Magellan, a prominent

Guineas candidate from Riccarton, was not timed when he galloped.

Helen Preston, his trainer, brought Magellan and the two other members of her team, Ernest and Palais Glide to Wingatui on Sunday. She made the transfer to. provide Magellan with an easy working track that would not aggravate filling he has had in a leg.

“He hasn’t done the work I would have liked since the Grigg Stakes. He has had a bit of filling and the tracks at Riccarton have been too hard to gallop him,” she said.

Magellan has been unsettled at Wingatui but he was more contented yesterday in a yard with Ernest. “It’s a tough field and he has a bad draw. The track could be a bit soft wide out,” she added. Mrs Preston will make Wingatui her base for the coming weeks to campaign at the Otago meeting and on the Southland Spring circuit.