Diamond Moose in grand order
Special correspondent
Auckland Diamond Moose looked in grand fettle when his Culverden owner-trainer Nelson Dalzell, jogged him at Alexandra Park yesterday.
Mai Mai and Our Mana, the other South Island Cup candidates stabled at the park, were also given easy tasks. Mai Mai’s trainer and part-owner, Ron MacDonald, was a little disappointed with the way the gelding went at a matinee at Alexandra Park on Wednesday. “He pulled hard,” Mac-
Donald said, “and as a result had no sprint at the finish. But he was settled enough, this morning.”
Mai Mai, with his race driver Paddy Timmins, in the sulky, went 3200 m in a tick under smin and maintained an even pace all the way. Colin de Filippi, the trainer-driver of Our Mana, is well satisfied with the horse’s condition. But he is not happy with the barrier draw.
“It’s going to be hard from out there,” he said. Our Mana will start from No. 8, one from the extreme outside in the front row.
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