Drying track will help Schweppeshire Lad
By J. J. BOYLE South Island horses will not be thick on the ground at Trentham today, but the Ashburton-trained Schweppeshire Lad might deny the northerners a clean sweep of the programme. The English-bred speedster galloped brilliantly before he was taken north, and drying! in the track yesterday after-!
1 noon with the prospect of 'good weather again today I should give him footing to I'show to best advantage, y Schweppeshire Lad's mis--'sion today is the Lightning ‘.Handicap, second leg of the H Wellington Racing Club's T.A.B. double. J The distance, 1000 m, is “lone at which Schweppeshire ; Lad excelled in Enpland. ; -I Schweppeshire Lad beat
all but the good filly, Gla- : mour Bay. over 1000 m in > The Pegasus, the first of his i two races at the New Zea- - land Cup meeting. • ; A week later he ran Kill-t-joy close in The Stewards > and today's race might find I him better than ever, and ’icapable of breaking through 1 for his first New Zealand t win.
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