Spy Shows Ability

Press, Volume CIX, Issue 32301, 20 May 1970, Page 4

Spy Shows Ability

I Spy showed that Amber- t ley form was the form that t mattered when she won the 1 Lewis Pass Handicap at Ric- • carton yesterday. f Mr and Mrs G. H. Murfitt’s Mystery filly had to be good > to win this, the fourth race , of her career, for she had only two or three stragglers . behind her when they went , half a furlong. I Spy was a chance ride ' for the Riccarton apprentice/ 5 G. R. Gullery, who was given s the mount when A. K. Robin- i son failed to arrive in time j from the south. - 1 Gullery said he was not | hopeful of winning until late i in the race. “I was only I hopeful of getting a third! when Bosa Nova and Mene-1 lens put a break on the rest. | But she really picked them! up when she got into the | softer footing after leaving] the chute.” Phar Wyn carried top] weight of 9-1 into second] place beyond challenging dis- 1 tance of the others. Vodka Lad did best of four! runners for J. L. Barr s Ric- 1 carton stable in running third] a neck ahead of his stable- 1 mate. Stream. But Meneleusl had luck all against him ini his attempt to justify his | favouritism. He got his] tongue over the bit and choked when leading with Bosa Nova.