By Tayler Strong
Pegasus Dream lowered an eight year old track record when he trotted 3200m in 4.08.6 to win at the Tuapeka meeting at Forbury Park on Sunday.
It was the fifth win for Pegasus Dream, owned and trained at Kohika by Noel Taylor, who races the gelding with Karina Bennett, of Timaru.
‘’He has always been tough but he has go a bit more speed as he has got older,’’ said Taylor of the 7yr-old. He will now race Pegasus Dream at the New Zealand Cup meeting.
Pegasus Dream bettered the track mark of 4.09.3 set by Raymauwarrhen Sun in 2007.
Pegasus Dream was among five wins on the 11-race card for reinsman Dexter Dunn. He also won with Titan Banner (Tuapeka Cup), Circus Boy, Deceitndesire and Strathmore’s Charm.
Titan Banner is likely to have his next start at the New Zealand Cup meeting after a decisive win.
His time of 4.01.4, was the second fastest recorded in the 3200m race.
Titan Banner enjoyed a good run after starting from 20m, ran on solidly to win by a length and a quarter. His time was within 1.7sec of the track and race record set by Anvils Best Ever in 2010.
Graeme Anderson, the trainer and part-owner of Titan Banner, said he would decide in the next few days if he would start Titan Banner next at Kaikoura on November 2 or the NZ Cup meeting.
“I am leaning towards the Cup meeting as it is a big trip to Kaikoura,’’ he said
.Deceitndesire was leased three weeks ago by the Jay Tee syndicate from breeder, Ian Wilson and transferred to Riversdale trainer, Tony Stratford. She was having her fifth start.
Stratford said he felt he had Pulp Fiction at his peak for the $50,000 PGG sale races at Kaikoura on November 2 after a bold workout at Gore on Saturday.
Circus Boy is raced by Ron Hampton, of Invercargill and his partner Connie Gill from the stable of Tony Barron.
Hampton was in the Squash syndicate who raced Albert Patron, winner of 11 races from the stable of Kirk Larsen before being sold to the United States in 2009. Hampton also raced the galloper Tugreys (three wins)in the early 1980s.
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