TULLOCH FIT

Press, Volume C, Issue 29499, 28 April 1961, Page 4

TULLOCH FIT

Fast Track Run (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) ADELAIDE. April 27. Tulloch today showed he was fit for the £2OOO Pullman Select Stakes at Cheltenham on Saturday by running the fastest half-mile seen at that track for seven years, iHe clocked 4Ssec and beat j the smart track galloper I Trackmaster by a length and a half. Tulloch was ridden by the South Australian jockey, W. Pyers. and immediately after the gallop the trainer, T. J. Smith, engaged him to ride the champion in Saturday's event. Veteran clock watchers at Cheltenham said they could not remember a stayer ever sprinting as well as Tulloch did this morning and they | could only remember one sprinter, Sir Isfahan, ever (running 48sec for half a mile. Sir Isfahan recorded this time seven years ago before I going to Melbourne to win ; the 1954 Futurity Stakes at ! Caulfield. i Smith said that Tulloch would have carried about 9-10 today and the point about the gallop that impressed him most was Tulloch’s eagerness to sprint home over the last furlong. “He showed much the same keenness in his sprints when he swept all before him as a three-year-old, but today was easily his best track sprint since he recovered from his long illness." Smith said.