Clan Trelay fit for steeples

Press, 31 May 1985, Page 22

Clan Trelay fit for steeples

PA Hastings A Hastings jumper, Clan Trelay, has fully recovered from the minor injuries he suffered in last Saturday’s Ashley Jenkins Steeples at Masterton and is a definite starter in Monday’s $120,000 Nescafe Great Northern Steeples. The trainer, Garnet Wood, said yesterday that the gelding pulled up a little sore after the Masterton race after hitting the last two fences hard. “He’d jumped all the others brilliantly, but made a mess of the last two,” he said. Wood said it took Clan Trelay a couple of days to get over the race, adding that the gelding had gone off his food. “He’s usually a great doer so he must have been a bit sick to go off his food,” he added. Clan Trelay seemed back to normal when he paraded

at the Hastings track yesterday morning and Wood said he would take him north tomorrow. Clan Trelay will have just the one race at the Auckland meeting. “After that I’ll bring him home and start getting him ready for the Hawke’s Bay Steeples,” Wood said. The Awapuni jockey, Graeme Lord, who won the Waverley Steeples on Clan Trelay and was also second on him at Masterton last Saturday, will ride the horse in the Great Northern. Meanwhile, another Hastings steeplechaser, Storm, is a defection from the MacNab Steeplechase at Wanganui on Saturday, his trainer, Paul Nelson, electing to head north for the Auckland meeting. Storm will contest the Greenlane Steeplechase at Ellerslie, with Stephen Dennett the rider.