Quite Able Picked For First Leg At Rangiora

Press, Volume C, Issue 29650, 21 October 1961, Page 5

Quite Able Picked For First Leg At Rangiora

Quite Able will continue his New Zealand Cup preparation in the North Canterbury Handicap, the principal event and first leg of the double, on the second day of the North Canterbury Racing Club’s annual meeting at Rangiora on Monday. One of his best runs should be adequate *lo give him victory although he will be conceding weight all round.

Quite Able has 9-1, 31b nacre than he carried into second place behind Personify in the corresipondins race yesterday. The latter will not be one of his rivals on Monday. The only horse rated within a stone of Quite Able in the North Canterbury Handicap is Valaris. whose Labour Day campaign will probably be determined by his oerformance in the Watkins Handican at Trentham today. Ten furlongs is probably Valaris's best distance and although he will find Quite Able difficult to match with only ll'b difference in their weights, he should prove the best of the top-weight’s rivals. Matauwhi and Golden Howe may be the best supported light-weights. Matauwhi was the best behind Quite Able in the President’s Handicap yesterday. Golden Howe is a newcomer to the meeting. His last-start failure in the Claude Stock Memorial at Orari a week ago is the only bleak spot in his otherwise very consistent record this season.

Abou Ben Adhem will take beating in the second leg of the double, the Dr. T. A Will Memorial Handicap, if he has held the form which gave him an easy first-up win for the season in the open sprint at Orari last Saturday. Hopeful, which won the open snrint yesterday stylishly. Gabelle, which led the chase after him at the finish, and Safe Harbour, a fastfinishing fourth in the same race, are generally exnected to be Abou Ben Adhem’s strongest rivals. Selections:— 11.30 a.m.—W. Parsons Memorial Highweight: Tannine, Wyebank, Obeyance. 12.10 p.m.—Loburn Maiden Handicap No. 1: Natlin, Glissader. Speciality. 12.50 p.m.—Springbank Hack Handicap: Lady York, Bridie O'Cally.

1.40 p.m.—North Canterbury Handicap: Quite Able, Valaris, Matauwhi. 2.5 p.m.—Loburn Maiden Handicap No. 2: Belleville, Magonza, Montalto. 3.10 p.m.—Fernside Hack Handicap: Payout. Donna Maria, Great Heights. 3.50 p.m.—Dr. T. A. Will Memorial Handicap: Abou Ben Adhem. Hopeful, Safe Harbour. 4.®) p.m.—Rangiora Hack Handicap: Derailment. Sailorman. Picright. Fields are:— W. PARSONS MEMORIAL HIGH-WEIGHT, of £250; nine furlongs and a half.—Tarmine (6) 10-3; Obeyance (1) 9-10: Sports Date (4). Wyebank (3) 9-7; Julloch (10) 9-5: Brydone (9). Hullabaloo (7), Kamal (5). Royal Regent (8). White Skies <2) 9-0. LOBURN MAIDEN HANDICAP, No. 1, of £225: seven furlongs.—Natlin (1) 9-0; Arouse (3), Bar Kochba (2), Country Belle (8), Delaware (91, Gaymark (10). Glissader (4), Great Glee (7), Specialty (6), Nolibelle (5) 8-10.

SPRINGBANK HACK HANDICAP, of £350; three-year-olds; seven furlongs.—Bridie O’Cally (3) 9-0; Explain (1) 8-4; Double (2) Lady York (5) 7-11; Royal Appeal (4) 7-7. NORTH CANTERBURY HANDICAP. of £800; one mile and a quarter.—Quite Able (8) 9-1; Valaris (11) 9-0; Magic Circle (7) 7-13; McCool (2), Matauwhi (12) 7-12; Slatey (9) 7-10: Canon 16), Golden Howe (5) 7-9: Hand Over (10), My Fair Lady (15), Roa (4). Royal George (14). Search Warrant (3). Peril (1). Studio (13) 7-7. LOBURN MAIDEN HANDICAP NO. 2. of £223; seven furlongs.—Bamey (9). Belleville (6) Certainly (3), Leslie Bell (4) Magonza (3), Methuselah (10). Montalto (1), Sumptuous (7) Siam (2) 8-10; Brown Brocade (8) 8-5. FERNSIDE HACK HANDICAP, of £300; seven furlongs.— Donna Maria (10) 8-9; Payout (3) 8-8; Ruffle (4) 8-2; Great Heights (9) 8-1; Llantana (8) 7-11; Mhor (7) 7-8; Buckshot (2), Centesimo (5). Forsythe (6). Vienna Woods (1) 7-7. DR. T. A. WILL MEMORIAL HANDICAP, of £400; seven furlongs.—Abou Ben Adhem (6). Hopeful (2) 8-7; Newmarket (81 7- Gabelle (3), Coral Ring (1) 7-10; Safe Harbour (3) 7-8; Hunted (9), Hunting Melody. Stradbroke (7) 7-7. RANGIORA HACK HANDICAP, of £300: one mile and one and a half furlongs.—Sailorman (14) 9-6; Tarmine (5) 8-11; Picright (1) 8-8; Derailment (11) 8- Tui Hill (13), Knight (6) 8-2; Silver Wood (2) 8-1; Candida (10) 7-13; Mygrid (12) 7-8; Belle Comtesse (8), Brydone (15), Hullabaloo (9). Kamal (7). Keep Quiet (4), Rustle (3) 7-7.