Thistoll horses run fine trials

Press, 19 December 1984, Page 51

Thistoll horses run fine trials

By

J. J. BOYLE

The country life appears to be agreeing with members of Ned Thistoll’s recently-established West Melton stable. Pendulyn, Channel Bay, and Adios King were members of the Thistoll team to win at the Riccarton Turf Club’s trials, run on the trial grass at Riccarton yesterday. There was no more impressive winner on a busy, well-run programme than Pendulyn, the winner by six lengths of one of four 1600 m events for all classes, and this Beaufort Sea mare will noe be set a holiday programme to include the Timaru Cup and, probably, the Southland Racing Club’s Aluminium Smelter Stakes. Pendulyn won her heat by

six lengths from Sir Ashley in 1:38.4. Her stablemate Channel Bay won the first heat by a neck from Streetem in 1.39.

Dave Kerr’s pair, Mustard Pot and Just From Beechwood, won the two other 1600 m heats for all classes, the latter returning the fastest time of 1:37.2 in beating the former Taka-nini-trained gelding, Cahir, by a length. Plans to run Canterbury Belle, the star of the Kenstable, in one of the shorter events had to be abandoned because of filling in one of the forelegs of the filly.

This setback also ruled out a start for Canterbury Belle in the Hazlett Stakes at Wingatui on Saturday, and a start in the Timaru Cup on Thursday of next

week will depend on progress in the next few Noble Note and Upper Cut, acceptors for the James Haziett Stakes, met in the 1150 m event from which Canterbury Belle was scratched yesterday. Noble Note finished at a great rate to win by a length from Double Bank, with Upper Cut a halflength back third, but that effort did not clinch a start at Wingatui for Noble Note.

John Bourne, trainer of the Noble Bijou gelding, feels that two closelyspaced races on firm tracks would not be desirable, and might wait for the Timaru Cup. Grant Davison will switch to In the Glen for the Hazlett Stakes if Noble Note does not go to Wingatui.

Judy Hawes will ride Upper Cup in the Wingatui feature race. Donizetti, a stablemate of Noble Note, won the first of the two 1150 m sprints for aH classes on yesterday’s programme but took 2.5 seconds longer in completing the trip in 1:7.1. Snowdrift, an Icelandic— Monogram filly from the Kerr stable, and Osmandu Hill, a youngster prepared by Michael Pitman, wo • he two 600 m heats for o-year-olds. In each case the winning margin was a length and a half, but Snowdrift, with her 32.80, was the faster by 0.755. Miss Tryphena Bay was the easiest winner and fastest in the three heats of the 600 m event for all classes. She came out on top by two

and a half lengths in 32.56. Earlier, Chief Powhatan won in 32.88 and Bletchette in 33.50. Mountain View won the 1600 m qualifying maiden event in 1:41.6. Winders of the four heats of the 1150 maiden qualifying event were Million Joys, Elizabethan, Sally Beaufort, and Man Mountain. White Lip, a form runner in one of the maiden events at Wingatui on Saturday, ran the promising Another Look to a neck in one of the 1150 events for maidens and winners of one and two races, Adios King went half a second faster in winning the next heat of that event. White Lip’s stablemate Famillion was a distant second behind British Blue in the final heat of that event.