Fast Gallops By Top Fancies

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31198, 24 October 1966, Page 5

Fast Gallops By Top Fancies

Royal Bid and Danny Kaye.i “The Press” fancies for the T.A.B. double at Rangiora today, galloped brilliantly in training at Riccarton on Saturday. Royal Bid, with his race rider, F. H. Skelton up, ran a mile on the trial grass in tmln 40 3-ssec. Somara (A. Telfer) led Royal Bid earlv, and made it a s-olid gallop, but Royal Bid ran up easily in the straight and was comfortably holding a neck lead at the end. He ran his last half-mile in 49 2-ssec. Danny Kaye (B. Edens) was going keenly outside his stablemate, Kalimera (G. Gullery), after running the last four of Hve furlongs in 4Ssec. G. S. Barr has both sprinters at a high level of fitness, but Danny Kaye’s prospects at Rangiora today- look brighter now that a firm track seems likely.

The best of the other gallops and the trials of the top contenders for major races today were: Grass Mile.—Seminole and Young Baron clear of Dipmate, Imin 44 l-ssec; Gold Shower, Imin 44 3-ssec: Sabell and Hawkins, Imin 45sec; Marlborough, neck to Faraday and clear of Master Sheeny. Imin 43sec. Seven Furlongs.—Prince Callan and Cosmetic, clear of Not Guilty, whose saddle slipped, Imin 28 4-ssec. Half-mile. —Aoudo, length and a half Sir Limond, 47 4-ssec; El Beka and Rural, 49 2-ssec; Apache, 49 2-ssec. Plough Mile. Last Count, three lengths Takatua, Imin 44 3-ssec. Seven Furlongs.—Time and Tide and Court, Imin 29 4-ssec: Manana, imin 32 l-ssec.