RACING Material For Exciting Great Autumn Handicap

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31658, 19 April 1968, Page 4

RACING Material For Exciting Great Autumn Handicap

The $4OOO Great Autumn Handicap at Riccarton tomorrow has attracted a field capable of making this race, the last autumn event of the season with an inter-island flavour, something to remember.

It is a race that looks wide open, and victory for any one of four or five horses would make the day a great sporting success. Dalvui is assured of a hero’s welcome if he completes a rich double for the meeting for his Hawke’s Bay owner-breeder, Mr E. W. Syme. A win for Palisade would, or should, spark off just as much enthusiasm, because Riccarton patrons like to see successful veterans and Mr A. T. Ottrey’s 10-year-old is now nearing the end of a great career.

Southland has a strong fresh interest at the mooting through the presence in the field of Court Belle, already twice the winner of the race. A win by' any one of those horses would be immensely popular, but the list does not end there. Royal Master and Millie Small, the Riccarton pair! which filled the minor places behind Dalvui in the George Adams Handicap, and Point Duty, which finished fourth, put much interest into all pre-race conjecture, and. almost just as certain, will supply interest to the finish of the race itself. Dalvui, with 9st 41b, is up 91b on the weight he carried to a half-length victory over Royal Master in the George Adams Handicap. Bandon won under 9st 41b four years ago, and Dalvui is a horse of equally impressive physique for such a test. The state of the track—the firmer the better for him—is likely to have the final bearing on his chance. Court Belle won In 1965 with 7st 81b and last year with Bst 61b. This time she has Bst 11b, and she has come to Riccarton right in form after a strtngly-flnlshing second against the milers at Riverton on Tuesday. A relaxed approach by Point Duty to the early running would leave this Levin stayer with enough vitality to run every yard of a mile and a half with the best of them. He pulled his way to the front from the start in the George Adams Handicap and pacemaking made its inevitable demands on him in the final two furlongs. He will be ridden by J. R. Dowling, who has also been engaged for James Arthur, one of the top fancies for the Waltham Handicap, second leg of the T.A.B. double. Southern Hope If there is no deterioration in the track James Arthur is the South Island sprinter most likely to put the brilliant young Woodville gelding, Pasa Doble, to the test. Both Pasa Doble and James Arthur are three-year-olds.

iThe best of their elder* could be Glamis Lad, whose run for fifth in Pasa Doble'S Great Easter was not all that bad considering he had lost a good position about half way {through the race. The Greatest, a winner at a mile on Wednesday, and third in the Great Easter, is I also likely to be robust enough to come up with a third solid run .inside a week. FIRST 11.30 a.m— PEERSWICK HURDLES 81040; l|a. and ttyds.

SECOND LMejOW-CDURSE IMS p.l»— YALOHURST IJANDICAP

FIRST LEG OF T.A.B. DOUBLE 210 p.m.— GRBAT AUTUMN MANDICAF 14000; lim.

SBCOND LEG OF T.A.B. DOUBLE 3.30 p.m.— WALTHAM HANDICAP

st lb 1043 letan Ught (Ol.'W. J. Hlllia 10 6 0020 Loraitan <T) 9 9 3132 Lonvato <«. «. D. Hawthorne 9 7 4000 Bkeltheen (3) 9 6 0000 Taxman <*>. A. B. Swanion 9 3 2300 Otaio Bank (5) 9 2 0000 Indian Chief (10). P. J. Daly 9 0 0000 OrlMa (1), A. t. Borthwick 9 0 033 Boyal Burgh (3), B. p. Kennedy 0005 Who Doea In, a. T. 9 0 Dobbe 9 0

st lb 0202 Cattogat (in 8 10 2020 2330 novar Girl (•), p. J. Silver, < Joe Doe (114, A. J. 8 9 Stokes 8 8 0234 Running Water (S) .. 8 8 0003 Conciliation (14). G. R. Gullery 8 7 2000 Lady Lodge (8), J. D. Pankhurst 8 7 2540 Potenza (10), E. G. Low 8 7 4305 Migrant (!) 8 6 0050 Totara Valley (11), D. N. Hadfield 8 6 050 Anvil (7), E. J. Didham 8 5 0000 Arty Lady (4), J. A. Kerkvliet 8 5 0040 Bigoted (13) 8 5 0000 Black Rosette (15) 8 5 0000 Rerndale Lad (14), G. W. Mein 8 5 0000 Master Leigh (8), F. H. Skelton 8 5 0000 Sclmus (4), G. W. Wright 8 5 0400 Timbercombe (2). R. N. Marsh 8 5

0311 Dalvul (4). L. Tinsley K. st lb 9 4 0300 Palisade (7), R. Marsh N. 8 7 1004 Point Duty (1), J. Dowling B. 8 4

4402 Court Bolle <•), E. J Didham .. 8 1 2118 Millie Small (10), D R. Tucker 7 9 8200 Carpenter (4), E. G Low 7 8 4442 Royal Master <5), G R. Gullery 7 8 0004 Segundo <3>, M. J Skelton 0024 Running Seared <• 7 4 7 8 0035 Royal Encounter (2). A. H. Eastwood 7 0

13006; 7f. 3004 Middy (10), F. H. Skelton st lb 8 10 5010 Captain's Command (3) 8 • 0040 Bad Chips (11), E. J. Didham 8 9 0301 Pass Doble (0), L. K. Tinsley 8 8 1320 Sailor’s Flight (18), R. N. Marsh 8 4 111S James Arthur (3), J. It. Dowling 8 2 2010 Tumble (8), 7 12 5031 The Greatest (0), G. W. Wright 7 12 0025 Glamis Lad (13), P. J. Silver 7 10 0100 Mister Bud (7) 7 8 0000 Seminole (4) 5 4504 Bourbon Lass (5) 7 3 4200 Irish Gloss (14), A. H. Eastwood 7 3 0000 Never Again (1) 7 3 0450 Pango (12) 7 3