RECORD LIKELY

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31304, 25 February 1967, Page 6

RECORD LIKELY

Caulfield Sprint

(Special Crspdt. N.Z.P.A.)

SYDNEY. Fourteen of Australia’s top sprinters wiilil clash in the £4OOO Oakleigh Plate over 5J furlongs at Caulfield tomorrow.

Racing experts expect Time And Tide’s race record of Imin 3sec, set in 1965, to be broken.

Cendri'llon, which failed last week in the Lightning Stakes, is the favourite, but bookmakers have framed a tight market, wtih little between her, Marmion, Bowl King, and the Adelaide sprinter, Star Gun. Also in the field are the Sydney sprinters, Red Clinker, Gay Gauntlet, and the Doomben Ten Thousand winner, Pteryiaw. Apart from Cendrillon, the top-weight, Marmion, was well backed today, and either her or Bowl King could start favourite.

Marmion, a Craven A Stake® winner, is in top form and was unlucky to finish third behind Storm Queen and Redcap in the Lightning Stakes. The Sydney jockey, D. Lake, has given up rides at Randwisk for the mount on Bowl King, last year’e Newmarket Handicap winner. A galaxy of talent will line up for the St. George Stakes, over nine furlongs at weight-for-age, but Tobin Bronze is at long odds on for hit third win within a fortnight. Also engaged are Rio, Star Belle, Prince Grant, Future, Super Alton, and Pharaon. The New Zealand-bred filly, Quezette, which recently set a five-furlong record, will have her biggest test when she meets the unbeaten South Australian coit, Manihi, in the Merson Cooper Stakes over Mx furlongs.

Manihi te an odds-on favourite to gain hte sixth successive win. Quezette, which has five wins and two seconds from eight starts, te on the second line for what bookmakers regard as a match race.