Misgivings On Weight

Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31474, 14 September 1967, Page 4

Misgivings On Weight

"The Press” Special Service INVERCARGILL. Tolson will start in the Suburban Handicap at Wingatui on Saturday in spite of the misgivings of his connections. The trainer, R. J. Cochrane, feels that Tulson has been badly weighted, and on analysis of the handicap strongly supports Cochrane’s contention. Tulson has won two restricted age races—one as a two-year-old at Waimate and one as a three-year-old at Riccarton—but in the Suburban

Handicap he has been weighted at Bst 81b, or 131 b above the minimum. Tulson has earned $llBO from wins. He has also been twice placed. Next Please, which heads

the handicap and was a double winner at the Ashburton meeting, is weighted at Bst 101 b, only 21b above Tulson. Spanish Fox, will give Tulson only 11b Next Please, which is running out his hack nominations with a winning total of $lBBO, has won four hack races. His record is the equivalent of five wins from a handicapper’s point of view, because he was a novice when he won the Aylesbury Handicap (hack conditions for three-year-olds), a race Tulson won this year. Next Please has Bst 101 b at

Wingatui. He won with that weight at Ashburton. That Tulson should receive only 21b from Next Please is puzzling.

If Tulson is badly handicapped in comparison with Next Please, he is also unfavourably treated in comparison with Spanish Fox, a laststart winner at Riccarton. Spanish Fox has won three races, was 14 times placed last season and has almost cleared hack class, having won $1420 in winning stakes. Tulson will also have to concede 41b to Fair Behaviour, a winner of three races. Because Tulson is regarded as a strong Dunedin Guineas chance on the second day and a race on the first day would benefit him, Cochrane will produce him on Saturday.