A new name entered the frame for the ECC Timber Oaks, which starts at Belle Vue a week on Saturday, after Tyrur Dicky, owned by the competition sponsor PJ Fahy went fastest in Tuesday trial session writes John Forbes.
A semi-finalist in the Irish Oaks, the bitch, now with Charlie Lister, clocked a 27.78 for the 470 metres on a track rated 20 spots slow in Manchester on her first look round the track.
Good news, too for Paul Young as his bitches JayteeTexas and Jaytee Firefly both went well in a two-runner trial, Texas coming out on top in 27.86, but with only threequarters of a length separating the pair.
Pat Rosney’s Laurels hope Aero Inferno put in a 28.00 effort when the track was running 30 spots slow, but it became a dark afternoon for the Leyland trainer when his Monmore Puppy Derby third Vatican Bolateli was disqualified by the stewards after finishing a neck behind Market Set Up in a very unsatisfactory trial best illustrated by the time of 29.18.
