Bring on Cent Home's Next Run: Wallace
- Tuesday, 27 August 2002 00:00
Wairarapa trainer Jim Wallace can hardly wait for September 14 and the
$120,000 Glenmorgan Hawkes Bay Challenge Stakes at Hastings - whether or not Sunline
returns for the same race.Wallaces classy gelding Cent Home (NZ) (Lord Ballina) showed he was as good as ever at seven years old when he powered home for third to Sunline (NZ) and Tit For Taat(NZ) in Saturdays Mudgway Partsworld Stakes.
At the line the official margins of three-quarters of a length and a length were diminishing rapidly as Cent Home recovered from a chequered passage in the straight.
Unsoundness has plagued Cent Homes career but Wallace touched wood this morning as he said that his charge had come through his season pipe-opener in good shape.
"At this stage you can expect to see us there on the 14th and again for
the Kelt (September 28)."
Plans for Tit For Tat, who threatened to spoil the Hastings party on Saturday afternoon when he threw down the challenge to Sunline, are uncertain.
Trainer Wayne Herbert remains unconvinced that the chestnut is at his best beyond a sprint distance, but that may not be sufficient to keep him away from the 1600 metre Glenmorgan, due in part to a lack of alternative opportunities.
Other runners from last Saturday who are expected to back up are Conquistar (NZ) (Danasinga) and Pure Theatre (NZ) (Nureyev), close up fourth and fifth behind Sunline, as well as the next two home, Hello Dolly (NZ) (Mi Preferido) and Hail (NZ) (Star South), and Saint Cecile (NZ) (Pompeii Court) and Leica Guv (NZ) (Deputy Governor), whose chances were settled with slow beginnings.
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