Williams team walk Trentham track

Press, 4 March 1988, Page 25

Williams team walk Trentham track

Special correspondent i Wellington Trentham racegoers' could be in for something of a bonus iwhen the second day of the Wellington Racing Club’s meeting is held tomorrow week. The Auckland Cup winner, Sea Swift, was at the track yesterday and her cotrainer, Peter Williams, said that!there was a chance that she would run in the $40,000 Chalmers Stakes (2400 m the main handicap on the second day. Williams arrived in the early hours of yesterday morning and as well as Sea Swift he has Moderation and Mitchell Sage, which will contest the $35,000 UDC Finance Handicap (2200 m tomorrow. Because they arrived late, the pair were let off with a very light task, just an easy walk round the track. Moderation, which has been to Trentham before, has two wins and a second to show from his last three starts. Mitchell Sage, a four-year-old son of Palatable and Blue Sage, has won his last two races, at Riccarton and Wingatui. Mark Barnsley is booked to ride Moderation and Chris Johnson Mitchell Sage. Sea Swift has not raced since her record-breaking triumph at Ellerslie. A

trip to the North has been made possible by a change in airline schedules. Sea Swift, Williams said, is to race in Sydney. She has two races over there, the first in the SIM Tancred Stakes (2400 m on March 26 and then her main mission the $400,000 Sydney Cup (3200 m at Randwick on April 9. The stablemates will base at Trentham until Sunday. They will then move on to Woodville for the week. Work at Trentham yesterday took place on the outside of the course proper, the trial grass and the plough. All tracks were fast. Fast work was at a premium and with a generous cover of fog for some of the session and with some of the work taking place in the dark not many times could be recorded. Of those racing, the Scholes stablemates, Taste and Scholar’s Habit, along with Roi d’Ore worked in the dark. Hush Up, which looks well to resume at Awapuni on Wednesday, Hanayome and Lindo Chaval, also pleased. Miss Simbir, which is in the Pacific Maiden, ran an easy 600 m on the plough in 40.85. She did well in her Tauherenikau debut to get third, but an outside draw will not help her tomorrow.