Silver Blue wins again

Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32846, 21 February 1972, Page 9

Silver Blue wins again

(N.Z. Press Association) SYDNEY. Silver Blue gave the Woodville trainer, S. A. Brown, a strong hand for the $75,000 Doncaster Handicap, one mile, on the course on April 12 with his second successive win, in the A. L. Gordon Handicap (Im) at Randwick on Saturday. The Australian form of Silver Blue has come as something of a surprise to Brown who, after the five-year-old Byland gelding won the Westmead Welter at Rosehill last Saturday week said the horse was just a useful galloper and no particular campaign had been mapped out for him. Brown said he would take the races for Silver Blue as they came. After Saturday’s win, however, Brown said Silver Blue would be set for the Doncaster.

Brown will also run the unbeaten Triton in the Doncaster, and Silver Blue gives him a solid back-up performer. Silver Blue has been weighted at 7-5 in the Doncaster, compared with Triton’s 8-9. and Brown said that Silver Blue’s two wins had put him into the Doncaster well.

Broun said Silver Blue, which had not won a race for more than 12 months before coming to Australia, apparently liked the Sydney tracks.

"He seems to relish the type of grass you have on your tracks here. In New Zealand we found that the tracks were invariably too heavy or too hard for him,” Brown said.