RACING Small fields should help betters

Press, Volume CX, Issue 32406, 19 September 1970, Page 8

RACING Small fields should help betters

The Oamaru Jockey Club will run a jackpot on six races tomorrow. It will start with a pool of $4444.50.

The first jackpot race will be the Stewards’ Handicap, for which there are five runners, making this the smallest field on the card.

The combined efforts of Lloyd and Miss Slick in the Steward’s Handicap will be expected to keep most entries “alive” for the second jackpot race, the Spring High-weight The other jackpot races are the Waitaki Hack Handicap, the Whitestone Handicap, the Maiden Stakes, and the Oamaru Hack Handicap. There will be no jackpot to attract patrons on the local scene but all the material is there to provide fans with some excellent racing at the New Brighton Trotting Club’s meeting at Addington Raceway tonight. The Rain Again-Valencia

bracket in the T. E. Johnston Stakes looks the “bet of the night” but the issue looks a lot more open in most of the other events on the card and this is particularly so in the O. Hutchison Handicap, first leg of the main double. With so many well - performed form-runners to choose from patrons are bound to have a wide range of fancies. Loyal Adios and James will represent Canterbury stables in the Septembei Handicap, the main race and first leg of the T.A.B. double at the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting at Alexandra Park Raceway tonight.

James looks to be set a fairly difficult task from the back-mark of 36 yards but Loyal Adios, from the front, might be the hardest to beat if he has held the form which earned him fourth in his only race at Hutt Park last Saturday night. There will be other attractions outside of the T.A.B. double races at the three galloping meetings in the north.

The clash between Jan’s Beau and the unbeaten Panzer Chief in the : Breeders’ Stakes at Te Rapa i should be one of the features lat the Cambridge Jockey Club’s meeting. The encounter between some very smart three-year-old fillies under handicap conditions in the Gold Trail Stakes will be one of the features—another will be the appearance of the highlyrated Fairview Lad in the Welter Handicap—of the

Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club’s meeting at Hastings. The Otaki Maori Racing Club will also have a race bound to create interest. This is the Otaki Stakes, the first two-year-old event of the new season. The “new” youngsters will meet in this four-furlong scurry under set-weight conditions. The colt and geldings will carry 8-3 and the fillies 51b less.