N.Z. Pacers In Favour

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32222, 14 February 1970, Page 7

N.Z. Pacers In Favour

(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) i MELBOURNE. Garcon Roux and Stella Frost are rated the | best of the strong New Zealand contingent engaged in the first series | of qualifying heats of I ithe 1970 Inter-Dominion iChampions at the Melbourne Show Grounds tonight. Both are expected to gain valuable early points in then endeavour to make the “big nine” for the $40,000 Grand! Final on Saturday, February! 28. j The series promises to be j the best ever staged in Aus ! tralia. Never has there been such | strong New Zealand repre ! i sentation numerically and i whereas in past series in Mel bourne locals have made up j the bulk of the fields only 11' I will start on this occasion. '

! For the first time Queens land, Australia’s latest night ! trotting state, is represented Lucky Creed, winner of 261 of his last 27 races, and a ! pre-post favourite for the final; i! a fortnight hence, is from that. 1 j state. Waitaki Elect and Garcon; Roux (first heat), Leading' Light and Stella Frost i (second), and Co Pilot and; ; Torrent (fourth) will dodge' i Lucky Creed tonight. i The unlucky New Zealand horse drawn in the third heal is Meadow Bank. The South Australian pacer, Adios Court, second to Rich mond Lass at Aedlaide last ’.year, is favourite, with Gar | con Roux second favourite, in ‘j the first heat. I Stella Frost is favourite for ' the second heat with Lead ing Light at reasonable odds.! 1 Meadow Bank is at long odds i for the third heat in which Lucky Creed is favourite i. while Co Pilot and Torrent are among the ousiders in the I fourth heat. The heats tonight are over ■ 11 furlongs and 36 yards and 1 this favours horses drawn on 1 the front.