National Tabella ready to resume

Press, 13 September 1988, Page 35

National Tabella ready to resume

By

JEFF SCOTT

National Tabella, which has a date with Windshield Wiper’s stallion brother, Knight and Deigh (1:54), this spring, won the C2 and faster pace at the Rangiora trials yesterday.

The winner of five races in the North Island (one penalty-free), National Tabella was purchased last year by syndication chief, Max Bowden, but failed to get in foal to premier sire, Vance Hanover. A six-year-old daughter of Noodlum and Serious Girl (bred on similar lines to the 1:59.5 race mare Gavotte), National Tabella is being trained for this campaign by Greg Hope. She is to resume racing, after 12 months away, next month. Hope had National Tabella in front after 800 m yesterday. He then set a moderate pace with the mare to the 800 m, and they came home from there in 59.2 with the closing 400 m in 29, holding out Peta Eyre (in the open) by a neck. National Tabella took 3:32.2 for the full 2600 m.

Canasta King, which trailed, held third a length away, with Starwin Boy a strong-finishing fourth, running his last 800 m in 58.6 and his closing 400 m in a sharp 28.6. Jack Smolensk! produced a colt by the champion sire, Vance Hanover, Imperial Guest, to impressively win the Two-Year-Old Parade over 1600 m in 2:12.9. A half-brother to the former top race mare, Hilarious Guest (1:57), and to Regal Guest (1:58.2), Imperial Guest sprinted home attractively from the 800 m in 61.2, quickening from the 400 m in 29.4 to beat two rivals, Motu Hard And Fast and Head Above Water, by a length. Crowley’s older brother, Kiwi Fella, which resumes in the Sydenham Mall Mobile Pace at Addington on Saturday, was

full of running but never clear at the finish of the Cl pace yesterday, won in all-the-way fashion by stablemate, Whitney’s Creek, in a slow 3:37. Crazy For You, now with David Butt, came from the rear to win a CO pace in 3:31, while Viewfield Lord (lan Cameron) moved up from the 600 m to score another useful trials win in 3:32.9. Other winners were: Shesa Monti (Cl and faster pace, mobile, 3:30), Alabama Knight (CO trot, 3:37.8, last 800 m in 60.1), and False Call (Cl and faster trot, 3:35.9). Arnie’s Frolic impressive Arnie’s Frolic, the third foal by the champion North American squaregaiter, Arndon (1:54), to appear in New Zealand made a favourable first impression at the work-

outs, which followed the trials yesterday. Unofficially not a three-year-old until next May, Arnie’s Frolic began on her own from the second row in an unqualified pacers’ heat and trotted away like a toff. Settling back on the inner, she was angled four wide to make a run turning for. home and sprinted over her closing 400 m in 29.3 to finish fourth for her co-trainer, Mark Smolensk!.

A daughter of the former open-class mare, Game Folly, Arnie’s Frolic was timed over her last 2400 m in 3:16.8 and her closing 800 m in 60.8.

“We’re in no hurry with her. We’ll probably give her another workout then qualify her,” said Smolensk!, who prepares her in partnership with Fred Fletcher, at Weedons.