Speedster ‘felt good’
By
J. J. BOYLE
The Takanini jockey, Grant Cooksley, came south for a programme of race riding at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting yesterday. It also gave him the chance to renew an association with the brilliant Canterbury Belle, one that prospered with a victory in the Elders Stakes in Bris-
bane last winter. Canterbury Belle’s appearance on her borne track yesterday was to gallop 1200 m with the veteran, Miles Better. The two chestnuts finished the assignment in 1:18.4 after being taken wide around the home turn. They completed the last 800 in 49.4. “She felt good,” Cooksley
said after be brought Canterbury Belle back to the birdcage. The gallop should have done last season’s One Thousand Guineas winner no end of good in her preparation for a fresh campaign, which will start with the weight-for-age Timaru Cup on December 27.
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