SORE AT ATTACK

Press, Volume C, Issue 29498, 27 April 1961, Page 4

SORE AT ATTACK

Pleasant JThy.s Out ~ ’ w.. ~ rieuant wgyt naai Men scratched for the f high-weight at Ric- I - carton on Saturday, I and Pinnacle Stream I is an unlikely starter. I Both were sore after gal-| lope at Riccarton on Tues-j Rushmoor, a stablemate of! Pinnacle Stream, will not run in the first Ashley Maiden. He is shin are. Rushmoor and Pinnacle Stream are trained by G. H. Murfitt, junr., who saddled four winners, of successive races, at Nelson on Monday, At least three of those winners will race at Riccarton on Saturday. R. J. Skelton has been engaged to ride Pitch in the Inglewood Hack Handicap, and A. J. Stokes will ride the other stable representative, Payout. No rider had been engaged yesterday for Hopeful, a winner against the open sprinters at Nelson. Ride ea Gabbier W. D. Skelton, who won on Pitch on Monday, will ride the Waimate-trained Gabbler in the Inglewood Handicap. Gabbler will be having his first race since he has been trained by P. H. R. Andrews. He did his earlier racing for Mr H. D. Greenwood, and from K. J. Thomson’s Riccarton stable. W. D. Skelton will ride John Jameson in the Ronald Macdonald Handicap, the second leg of the North Canterbury club’s double.