RACING Subside Fancied For Main Hokitika Race

Press, Volume C, Issue 29435, 10 February 1961, Page 5

RACING Subside Fancied For Main Hokitika Race

Ihe front-running Subside is good enough to outrun her rivals in the mile Michael Keenan Memorial Handicap, first leg of the Westland Racing Club’s double at Hokitika tomorrow. Subside will be having her first start from C. J. Walsh’s Omoto stable, but it seems that her recent racing from H. A. Anderton’s Wingatui stable has brought her close to winning form.

Subside was a good fifth in the Winton Jubilee Cup, one mile and a quarter, at her latest start. That was on January 28. She has not managed to win so far this season, but has placed form. Earlier in her career she did very well in the south as a sprinter on winter tracks Then, last season, she showed she could master a mile and a quarter with two decisive wins in Southland—the first a very easy win at Gore and the second at Wyndham. Subside is owned by Mr A. Clouston. who has been a generous supporter of West Coast meetings.

Mr Clouston also owns Akatarawa, which has been a good winner in sprint races in Sydney. Subside is top-weight, with 8-9, in the Keenan Memorial Handicap. The only others with 8-0 or more are Mighty Son (8-4), Skyrain <B-l), and Come On Boy (8-0). Mighty Son. like Subside, has done most of his racing in the south, and at times he has developed form of a pretty fair standard. Won At Oniakau He finished out of a place, after being checked, in the Jubilee Cup at Winton, but easily won the Moran Memorial Challenge Cup at Ornakau a fortnight earlier. He was having his second start for the day when he won the Moran Cup; in his first, the high-weight, he ran the very useful Fire Bar to a nose. Skyrain won as a miler at Kumara two starts back, beating Ocean Melody narrowly and eight others easily. Since then he has been placed over the Hokitika mile course and has not raced in the meantime. Kalinita has also been a consistent campaigner at recent West Coast meetings—she was a close second at the last Westland meeting—and she could be the pick of those close to or on the minimum.

Gold Raid, a stable-mate of Subside, is another useful galloper m the tail of the handicap. He was a strongly-fin-ishing fourth in the corresponding race at Hokitika on January 16. Whiohau will be Riccarton’s

lone representative in the Keenan Memorial. He is consistent enough at about a mile and - a quarter when the class is weak, but might not have a sharp enough turn of speed for a mile. He was a fair fourth in the high-weight at Riccarton last Saturday. The second leg of tomorrow’s double is the Lake Matheson Hack Handicap. If the ground is heavy, Topa will be a dominating favourite.

This Riccarton-owned gelding had a track to suit him at the Canterbury Jockey Club’s of the popular fancies. Whether they can beat Topa at the weights might depend finally on the condition of the track. With firm footing they could manage the job. The field has the usual number for a West Coast meeting of double acceptors, and four horses are engaged earlier in the day. The programme chosen for the veteran Arctic Sun is unlikely to have any bearing on betting or the results, but course patrons could benefit from their on-the-spot knowledge of the programmes chosen for Volterra, Appreciation, and Silver Coral. On-course double fields and form are:— ROSS STAKES.

FRANZ JOSEF GLACIER HACK HANDICAP, Of £160; seven furlongs.

6421 Totara Lass (6) ..7 10 Scratched: Lumnus. Off-course double fields and form are:—

from last for third over a mile and a quarter. Topa is down on the minimum, and he sets form horses in the top part of the handicap pretty stiff tests. Slatey and Pyrites were first and second in the corresponding race at Hokitika on

Of £130; six furlongs st. lb 4735 Mazarine (1) * .. 8 10 Sure Tor (6) 8 10 50 Carmell (4) .. 8 5 70 Howe Good (8) 8 5 0 Ignite (3) 8 5 0040 Familiar <5) 8 5 6906 Royal Money (7> .. 8 5 00 Sir Donnington < 2) .. 8 5

4120 Befana (2) .. .. S qio 1738 Volterra (7) .. 8 10

6216 Roa (10) ..8 6 5253 Appreciation (4) ..81 6533 Silver Coral (1) .. 7 11 3116 Imperial Storm (3) .. 7 10 30 Napoleon Bonaparte (5) 7 10 4564 Rosalei (9) .. .. 7 10

MICHAEL KEENAN HANDICAP, Of £300: one mile. st. lb 3965 Subside (1) .. 8 9 2120 Mighty Son (7) 8 4 0513 Sky rain (5) .. 8 1 summer meeting and came

January 16, and will be two 8848 Come On Boy (6) . 8 0 9234 Whiohau (4) . 7 11 8682 Kalanita (11) . 7 9 4746 Hunting Melody (3) . 7 8 9 Arctic Sun (2) . 7 7 9797 Asoka (10) .. . 7 7 6954 Gold Raid (8) 7 7 8096 Pilot Dancer (9) ’ 7 7 077 Uproar (12) .. . 7 7 LAKE MATHESON HACK HANDICAP, Of £175: one mile and a quarter st. lb 1321 Slatey (9) . 9 3 2212 Pyrities (2) .. . 8 11 1738 Volterra (1) .. . 8 5 7498 Harkville (6) . 7 13 9 Arctic Sun (10) . 7 10 4764 Appreciation (3) . 7 10 8750 Vestment Lady (7) . 7 9 5253 Alonzing (8) . 7 8 5168 Gaza (12) . 7 7 983 Topa (11) . 7 4 1557 Zayton (4) . 7 7 Balloted out with right of reentry: 6533 Silver Coral (5) . 7 7