Otago Stablemates Fancied For Double

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30178, 9 July 1963, Page 4

Otago Stablemates Fancied For Double

The proven “mud-larks” will be much in demand on the second day of the South Canterbury Jockey Club’s winter meeting at Washdyke today.

One person, in particular, who is bound to be pleased that the track will be heavy is the Wingatui owner-trainer, J. B. Brown, who will saddle Lucky Son and Begorrah, two noted mud-larks, for the totalisator double.

Lucky Son, which has won his last four races in succession, will be a short-priced favourite for the first leg, the H. H. Fraser Memorial Handicap, now that Palisade has dropped out of the field.

Begorrah might not be the popular fancy for the Washdyke Intermediate Handicap, second leg of the double, but his laststart place form entitles him to be high on the list of strong possibilities.

club's committee has decided to make the test a little easier by eliminating one of the stand-double brushes.

Packwood, from Riccarton, and Goodbye and Callamara, which are both trained at Gore, might see the steeples’ distance out best.

The other race for jumpers on a well-balanced programme is the Kerrytown Hurdles in which Hunting Horn, Morelia and Knight are strong fancies.

The second leg favourite might be Myfilou or, perhaps. Brown Brocade; two well-performed stayers in real winter ground.

Scratchings have reduced the starters in most of the races but the field of 13 in the hurdles was still intact yesterday.

The best of t>he milers, beside Lucky Son, in the Fraser Memorial could be John Jameson and Donna Maria.

Hack milers are catered for in the Strathallan Improvers’ Handicap and the Juvenile Handicap is exclusively for two-year-olds. Maiden sprinters and milers will each get a chance. The Opihi and Otaio Stakes are provided for them.

The ’chasers engaged in the Triford Memorial Steeples will have a hard slog through mud for two miles and a half. But the