RACING Form Horses Should Race Well At Wingatui

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28606, 7 June 1958, Page 7

RACING Form Horses Should Race Well At Wingatui

(From Out Own Reporter)

, DUNEDIN, June 6. After two days’ racing on heaw tracks s we 1 exposed for the-last day of the Dunedl’n Jockey. Club s winter meeting at Wingatui tomorrow The track will again be heavy and backers wUI bank their 6 ' B and PkCed h ° rses the A'* Half the programme on Monday was won bv horses which had been successful on the first dav Those horses were Formal and Cassius, both owned* and trained by Mr C. H. Wallis, of Dune Sin, and and Raglan. These horses are MtTr" tomorr ? w and it will be surprising if they all fail to come through the meeting unbeaten

Raglan will oppose Cassius for the first tiftie in the Queen Elizabeth Handicap. Cassius won this race last year when one of the light-weights. Tomorrow he has 8-1 to master, and a victory over Raglan will demand one of his very best efforts. Raglan, 151 b below Cassius in the weights, has won twice over seven furlongs so far at the meeting. The first win was against the hack sprinters, the second in open company in which he beat Ben Ledi decisively and the others very easily. Nairn Bridge, W. D. Skelton’s mount, will perhaps be the best of the others. W. D. Skelton will ride Kasr-el-Nil. the top weight in the Empire Handicap, second leg of the off-course double. This was a successful combination last Saturday in the Winter Handicap, and the Invercargill-trained Edenbridge gelding will make another bold run. Kasr-el-Nil has 10-2 this time, but has a furlong less to run. There are few more capable sprinters on winter tracks in the South Island. Subside, the runner-up to Kasr-el-Nil last Saturday, may be the favourite. The form of this Faux

light representation, but Scotch Emblem may improve the record of that centre at the meeting. Top weight of 8-13 will set him quite a test in the Aidworth Hack Handicap, but he will be much more at jease in the conditions than most of the others.

Tirage mare has been wonderfully consistent since she came from the North Isand to join H. A. Anderton’s Wingatui team. In beating all but Kasr-el-Nil last week she showed mastery of the track conditions peculiar to Wingatui in the winter and she should be well up to her weight of 9-6. On-Course Double The club wiH run a double for course patrons on the last two races on the programme, the Domain and Tainui Hack Handicaps. The form backgrounds of the Domain Handicap candidates are not strong, and Spiloch and Gay Romeo, two on the minimum, may fare as well, as gny in the top half of the handicap. Distant Day will be confidently backed to complete a double-for the meeting in the Tainui Handicap. He is well up to his weight of 9-2, and has drawn well in one of the larger fields of the day. Distant Day may get strongest opposition from Looking Forward, Osman, Kelton and Natella. Osman. Kelton and Natella have not yet raced at the meeting, but their form backgrounds are en-. couraging. Kelton had engagements on the first and second days of the meeting but was withdrawn each time. In each of those races he was bracketed with the less capable Brazier. There was heavy off-course support for the bracket, and when Kelton was scratched Brazier was at cramped and false odds. Riccarton stables will have very