RACING FINAL ORDERS MAY WIN AGAIN TODAY

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31330, 29 March 1967, Page 4

RACING FINAL ORDERS MAY WIN AGAIN TODAY

Kalimera, Tumble Double Fancies

Final Orders, The Greatest, and New Mint, all first-day winners, will have solid backing for their attempts to win again on the second day of the Canterbury Jockey Club’s autumn meeting at Riccarton today.

Final Orders, now unbeaten in four starts, will have his toughest test so far with 9-12 in the Tasman Handicap, but his class should carry him through.

The Greatest will attempt her fourth high-weight win in as many attempts at Riccarton this year, and New Mint, winner of his last two races, will run against the hack milers in the Wigram Handicap.

The leading jockey, R. J. Skelton, will fly from Auckland this morning to ride

Final Orders. He has also been engaged for the Riccarton pair, Billy Joe and Master Sheeny. Billy Joe, a winner at Ashburton last week, did not get the best of runs in the Champagne Stakes on Monday and finished sixth.

He is top-weight in the Autumn Nursery Handicap today, and with average luck in the running he should force his way into the finish. The Riccarton trainer, J. C. Tomkinson, scratched the

double acceptor, Hushaway, from the Templeton Handicap yesterday and will saddle two runners for the Dominion Handicap, the first leg of the T.A.B. double.

The stable jockey, A. J. Stokes, will ride Hushaway, and the northern rider, G. L. Willetts, has been engaged for Standout.

Royal Bid lends a touch of class to the Dominion Handicap field, but he has been dogged by leg troubles for much of the season, and his

latest setback came only last Saturday when he cast a shoe and injured a tendon. It is unlikely that he will be fit to last out a mile and a quarter with the best of the others, but his trainer, V. D. Clutterbuck, hopes that a race will bring the 1966 New Zealand Cup winner to a peak for one of the later autumn races.

Kalimera and Min Flicka may be two dominating figures in the finish of the Dominion Handicap, and Tumble, Royal Chase,, and Middy appear to supply the strength of the field for the Templeton Handicap, second leg of the T.A.B. double.