PLANS FOR GUS

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31085, 14 June 1966, Page 5

PLANS FOR GUS

Trentham Mile Preparation "The Press" Special Sercict PALMERSTON NORTH. Now that Gus has mastered open sprint company, his training will be planned to have him at his peak for the mile Whyte Handicap at Trentham next month. In pursuit of this he will race again at Awapuni next Saturday, and then freshen for the most serious test of his career. These plans were confirmed last Saturday by Mr and Mrs L. Tyree, of Levin, who have already steered the chestnut through a highly-successful campaign.

Although he would have liked to start the three-year-old on Saturday week, Mr Tyree was not prepared to risk a trip to the Hawke’s Bay meeting with him. He said that because Gus was not a good traveller he preferred to restrict his racing to meetings a little closer to Levin. Gus should be fit for his Trentham test on the preparation designed for him. He is a clean-winded horse, who takes little racing to attune him. W. D. Skelton had no hesitation in naming Gus as his Whyte Handicap mount after last Saturday’s success in the Stewards’ Handicap at the Manawatu winter meeting. In that event Gus accounted for a useful field of sprinters, coming away over the final furlong with little more than a kick or two to urge him along.