‘Too kind’ to mare
Special correspondent Auckland Delightful Lady’s trainer, Michael Stormont, thinks he knows the reason' for the champion mare’s disappointing form in her latest races. “I was too kind to her” Stormont said at Pukekohe recently. He explained that every time he saw her he gave her a dipper of oats, “It seemed that way, at any rate." “Since I started cutting it out, she has been going better and she looks better too." Delightful Lady the'oddson favourite, was only. fifth in the Free-For-All Harvey Interisland Challenge Stakes at Alexandra Park on October 24. Four nights earlier, she had also failed to pay a dividend. Delightful Lady will have her next race in the Rondel Handicap, an invitation race over 2700 m at Alexandra Park on Friday. As a wotm-
up, she will have a run at trials at Claudelands tomorrow. ' . i . After the Rondel. Handicap. there are no opportunities for her until the Christmas carnival at Alexandra Park. A recent. addition to Stormont’s team is Reincheck, which has been leased by Miss Sue Jamieson, of Pukekohe. and Stormont’s brother, John.
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