F. T. Anderson May Improve Riccarton Record

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30056, 14 February 1963, Page 4

F. T. Anderson May Improve Riccarton Record

The Wmstinga jockey, J. T. Anderson, arrived at Riccarton from the north yesterday. This morning he will ride Moy and Key in their final training gallops for the Royal meeting on Saturday.

Moy and Key, both maces from Hastings, wUI be etrong cratendera for two of the richest prizes at the Boyal meeting. So it aeeme that Anderson wSU have food prospects of improving hi# outstanding race - riding recced in big-mnney saca# this season. Stipulate, toe New ZeaOand and Auckland Cups winner and runner-up to the Wellington Cup, has been one of Anderson's successful mounts this season and Key has been another. He has ridden her in three of her four wins, including toe Churchill Stakes at Riccarton in November. Anderson la not Moy’s regular rider, but he was engaged to ride the Hastings mare because K. S. Cullen was not coming aoutb. The only time in 13 starts this season that Anderson and Mioy have been associated was in the PWhiwtua Cup, in which she finished third to Selwyn and Big BiM, early last month. Beside Moy and Key, Anderson will also ride the Carterton-trained two-year-old, Monetary, in the Hampton Court Handicap. Moorooka, CabaMna and Totem Lam. lit was evident that Key had taken no harm from her winning run in the Jackson Stakes at Wanganui last Saturday when ahe was given light exercise at Riccartoa yesterday. Her task was one round of pnu# WlOrik on toe plough. Although ahe is a fairly lightly-fleshed

mere, Key is solid in condition and looks ready for another big effort in foe £3OOO Duke of Edinburgh Stakes.

Key’s rounding-off gallop this morning will probably be a ado effort, but arrangements have been made for Moy, one of foe ruling

favourites for the £4OOO Queen Elizabeth Handicap, to work at speed, probably for six furlongs, with the local sprinter, Seaend.

The 10-year-old Great Sensation, the Queen Elizabeth Handicap top-weight, did nothing at all for a week after his arrival at Riccarton from the Wellington Cup meeting. He was showing the benefit of that short respite when exercised at Riccarton yesterday. He seemed thoroughly to enjoy a couple of rounds of the plough at half-pace and another round at a trot. Only seconds after pulling up, Mr D. W. Brown's Cassock gelding was picking contentedly at the grass alongside the track. If appearances count for

anything, Ghent Sensation* abort let-tip has done ,hhn more goodthan ham. AU the ooodKion he sanies la muacutar and there to no aurplua at all. Windvale Lad showed that he to ready the Queen BUaabetb Handicap when he hit out freely over a couple of round* on the plough and My Contact, Sybeau and To Reign showed that they had travelled well from the north when allowed simitar task*. Compensate, a local Lightweight for the Queen Ehaa-

both Handicap, rounded off his work with two rung over th* pony hurdles in tho middle. This was the teak also allotted to Bodkin, but an uncbeduled part of his trataung was a leap over th* second brush of the doubt* on th* trial steeplechase course. Although he is a comparative newcomer to the jumping field. Bodkin cleared thia fence at competently aa the pony hurdle*. Bodkin is a dual acceptor on Saturday. A decision whether he will run in the Newmarket or Balmoral Handicap* will be made to- ■ day. . A. J. Williams, the trainer i of Picright. is ad* undecided , about a rider for th* hors* i in the Queen EUzabeth Handicap. He said yesterday that he is prepared to wait in cm* . a suitable light-weight rider .’l* avaflsbte