RACING First-Day Winners May Succeed Again Today

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30179, 10 July 1963, Page 4

RACING First-Day Winners May Succeed Again Today

(Frem Our Own Rtportrr) WELLINGTON, July 9. Emsie, Golden Dreamer, and Mantovani are first-day winners confidently expected to win again on the second day of the Wellington Racing Club’s winter meeting tomorrow. The Takanini-trained Emsie is in the Corunna Hurdles, Golden Dreamer in the Matai Steeplechase, and Mantovani in the Members’ Handicap.

Golden Dreamer outclassed the hack 'chasers last Saturday and in his present form he should manage to win quite convincingly his first open steeplechase. He has won three races at Trentham, all at winter meetings, and in the first two of them, both on the flat, he owed his superiority to his ability in the mud.

None but the most competent mud-runners will be in demand tomorrow. The track will be heavy after steady rain today and yesterday.

Triple Score, the top-weight with 9-10, may be Golden Dreamer’s strongest rival.

Emsie won the back hurdles on Saturday with a strong front-running gallop. It was clear a long way from home that his pace would prove decisive. He was not the best jumper in the race. He was not sure of himself at ttie first flight and at the second to Last but he is quick -footed and stayed on his feet.

The one most likely to test him tomorrow is Hilight, a Matamata jumper having his first start at the meeting. He impressed in a working gallop at Trentham yesterday. £1 lowing he had taken no

barm from his winning run in the hurdles at the Hunt meeting at Wanganui last week.

Mantovani has the ability to win the Members’ Handicap decisively, but there must be some doubts whether he will approach this test with the keenness he showed last Saturday when he deadheated with Re-Echo. He did not have an easy race, and if it took the edge off him he will have a battle with Bargoed and Supreme Gold.

Bargoed could be half a stone better for his run in stronger company in the Whyte Handicap. The Members' Handicap is

the second leg of the TA.B double.

The first leg is the Parliamentary Handicap in which Kumai and McCool will be form runners for the South Island and could match Polo Prince, Beauzami, Action Packed and My Contact, which are probably the North Island’s best.

Chef and Nafanua will probably dominate the betting and almost as surely the finish of the Lambton Hurdles. Nafanua has been sore since his second to Chef on Saturday, but this is not expected to cost him a start. He likes the ground when it is very heavy, but so does Chef, which showed superior stamina on Saturday. Riccarton will have two fresh runners in the Seatoun Handicap, the sprint for hacks. Shakes and Foxy Boy are both strong, competent gallopers on winter tracks and both might run into places. Shakes, top-weight with 9-0, was a close second to Mali Peter as a two-year-old on the second day of the Wellington winter meeting last year. In the meantime he has won two races and another win will take him into open class.