Only two tickets on course treble

Press, 4 March 1981, Page 21

Only two tickets on course treble

The holders of two tickets on the Frontline, Gaucho and Princess Codeene combinatio in the course treble at Orari yesterday each received a dividend of $1216.95. Frontline and Gaucho were both solidly backed runners but Princess ’ Codeene, which carries the colours of her Washdyke trainers, Jack and Esta Daly, won the Belfield Stakes No. 1 at odds of more than 25-to-one. The Wingatui apprentice,! Joanne Lamond, had Princess Codeene handily placed till i the home turn, brought her! forward to make a bid early! in the run home and she! scampered away from the! others close to the end to win i by a length. ! In a good line-rup for the; minor places Belltoi took sec-i ond by a neck from Round Up .and Rosa. Fina was, a similar distariceyback, fourth. The runner-up,, the outsider of the 14-horse field, came’

from the fourth line for his placing, Round Up shared the same line as the winner, and Rosa Fina was fading slightl yafter being secondequal on the home turn. Kevin Morton’s not being able to make the correct weight for Frontline in the Orari Stakes turned out to I be a stroke of luck for Craig I Edmond. | Edmonds, who is apprenticed to Frontline’s Ashburlton trainer, Jim Lalor, was [able to claim 4.5 kg on the i favourite’s carded weight of 154. | Lalor wanted Frontline ) I ridden on the outer and Ed-i [mond carried out his boss’s; instructions to the letter. He I had Frontline three wide ini the second line around the home turn then quicklj 7 surged ahead earl yin the run home. Frontline?won by two and a quarter lengths from Anonoma Mae. which lasted for

second by a neck from her stablemate. New World. Mount Grey was a battling fourth and Monster led in the others. Gaucho improved a sound record for his Riccarton trainer, “Tex” Kenneally, who races the six-year-old in partnership with his son, Les, when he proved too strong; for his highweight rivals ini the Te Moana Handicap. The Riccarton horseman, Owen Anning. always had, Gaucho poised to challenge.! He joined Anrod and Kings-' wood in front as they made; | the straight and kept up a; [■solid run to win by a necks [from Laala Rookh. The irunner-up had the run of the! I race to the straight but Moto-i way improved three or four) places from the home turn to! take third, a length and a I half back. Kingswood was a[ weakening fourth and Anrod! followed him home. I-