Landora’s Pride coming south
Special correspondent Auckland
Landora’s Pride’s easy victory at Alexandra Park on Wednesday confirmed the plans of her Pukekohe trainer, Trevor Allingham, to take her south for a second Dominion Handicap tilt in November. "It’s definite now,” saaid Allingham with regard to the trip after the Impact Windows Mobile Trot, in which Landora’s Pride led all the way to beat the game Admiral Soanai by two and a quarter lengths. Landora’s Pride finished fourth to Tussle, Jenner and. Mel1
vander in last year’s Dominion Handicap. Allingham had already decided — win, lose or deadheat — before the race that Landora’s Pride would miss the $9OOO Morrinsville Trotting Cup, to be run at Cambridge this evening.
> “I didn’t want to start her in both,” he said. “It was this race last year that flattened her a bit and, after drawing better at Alexandra Park, we decided to start here in preference to Cambridge.
“If the Morrinsville race was run next week, she. (Landora’s Pride) would have been a defin-
ite starter, but with the way the two clubs have programmed their meetings (just two days apart) it just makes it too tough,” he said.
Landora’s Pride was having her first start since defeating New Zealand’s best trotters, and Game Ebony from Australia, in the Rowe Cup last May.
Allingham had given the mare a thorough preparation and Landora’s Pride, after trotting the mobile 2200 m in 2:52.4, hardly looked to have had a race afterwards.
All going l well, Landora’s Pride is tentatively
booked to fly south to Christchurch on November 9, the day before the New Zealand Cup meeting kicks off at Addington. Special cone-shaped bell boots are a precious commodity with the Allinghams and Landora’s Pride. Allingham purchased a set of the bell boots when in Australia and another from an Invercargill merchant. “I take very good care of them,” said Allingham when ungearing Landora’s Pride. "I have to, they don’t make this special type, any more.” J t
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