Good field of youngsters

Press, Volume CXIII, Issue 33189, 31 March 1973, Page 8

Good field of youngsters

Several youngsters,! e which are likely to be among the more fancied candidates for the twoi year-old events at the ’ New Zealand Metropoli- ; tan Trotting Club’s j Easter meeting this r month, will get their, last chance to show < worth-while form when - they contest the Meth-; i ven Stakes today. , The reappearance of Kotare .• Legend and Golden Moose,' . two likely contenders fori , honours in the $4500 New) > Zealand Welcome Stakes on) , the final day of the meeting) on April 21, will be of particular interest. Kotare Legend has noti raced since being beaten in) i the Kindergarten Stakes at) Waimate on December 9 I when he was forced wide on ! the bend out of the straight and lost his footing. ; He made up a lot of ground I for seventh and, with M.i 'Holmes his driver, seems) ■; likely to be the hardest toi , beat today. If he wins, or runs well,; -.he seems assured of a large) !following through the Adding-) J ton meeting. Golden Moose will face a s ' most difficult task from 36 || yards, but like Kotare Legend J he will only have to run well : | to hold his claim as one of ’ the top juveniles. i Palestine, an unlucky third:

behind Strauss at Addington) recently, and the unraced; Spry Guy may be the hard-1 est for ’Kotare Legend to) beat. Against Spry Guy, which!

has shown exceptional speed; at recent trial meetings, is a) wide barrier draw but the son of the 1969 New Zealand! Cup winner, Spry, has the! ability to overcome this.

Master Dean, which has not raced since the Wellington meeting in January, and Crimson Glory may be the best of the others. Hobart Lord, which outclassed his rivals in the Cheviot Cup at Rangiora, may be the best of an even field in the first leg of the T.A.B. double, the J. McCloy Memorial Handicap. Grosvenor Globe (a sound second) and Te Kao (fourth) in the corresponding event at Addington last week may be the best of the others. The second leg, the Spring- i burn Handicap, has drawn al very even field. City Hall.| Seafield Empress and Uni-i verso seem likely to run well. In something new for: local clubs there will be an ! on-course double on the two : divisions of the first race, the! j Highbank Handicap. This practice has had good results ! in the North Island and looks, ;an interesting experiment. There will be quinellas on. I all races except the first race land the first leg of the main| double.