SANDAKAN LOMBO BORN TO PACE, TRIUMPHS AS A TROTTER Sandakan Lombo was bred to be a pacer. But he proved to be a natural square gaiter and he notched his seventh win when he trotted faultlessly to score an easy win in the 2096m Great Southern Radio Pacing Preview Trotters Handicap at Gloucester Park on Friday night. Sandakan Lombo, trained at Wundowie by Bruce Stanley, who races the six-year-old with his wife Pauline, was a 32/1 tote outsider who proved just too speedy for his rivals when he set the pace and won by two and a half lengths from the fast-finishing Conquer All (30/1), with a nose to Xenon (29/1). Polemarker Heez Speedy Gonzalez galloped and lost a length at the start, pacing the way for Colin Brown, driving Sandakan Lombo for the first time, to dash the gelding straight to the front from the No. 2 barrier in the stand. Kim Young eased Heez Speedy Gonzalez off the pegs and into the breeze after 750m, but he wilted in the concluding stages to finish fifth. Hot Holiday, second fancy at 2/1, enjoyed an ideal passage, one-out and one-back, but lacked sparkle and finished fourth. Sandakan Lombo is by the American pacing stallion Life Sign (who earned $1,912,454 in stakes from 18 wins and 15 placings from 35 starts) and is the second foal out of Frances Lombo, who was retired after having two unplaced runs as a two-year-old pacer at Gloucester Park in November 2003. Frances Lombo was out of pacing mare Forrest Friend and her first foal was a pacer named Assissi Lombo, who had just 17 starts for one wins and two placings for stakes of $2375. Sandakan Lombo was Frances Lombo’s second foal and her third foal is Lombo Kotakinabalu, who has raced 11 times as a pacer for two wins, four placings and $10,850. by Ken Casellas
Posted on: Sun, 15 Sep 2013 07:57:04 +0000
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