Fury’s Order’s class to pay off in sprint

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33912, 4 August 1975, Page 9

Fury’s Order’s class to pay off in sprint

Fury's Order will be the horse hundreds will wish to see and thousands will be anxious to hear of when he starts his five-year-old racing at Riccarton tomorrow.

The big chestnut from Hawera has 61.5 kg in the Selwyn Handicap (about 1100 m). second leg of the Canterbury Jockey Club’s T.A.B. double. How he performs, even as ■ sprinter, will engage lively Interest in Australia as well ■s New Zealand in the light of his position as top-weight

and one of the early favourites for the Melbourne Cup. and at least one Melbourne newspaper has arranged for special coverage of his race tomorrow. Fury’s Order is unbeaten in three starts on Riccarton — the New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas two seasons ago. and, last season, the New Zealand Cup and the Benson and Hedges InterIsland. Special arrangements were made*for him to appear between races at Riccarton on Saturday and he was applauded when he paraded and when he galloped down,' the straight. Fury’s Order did not please his Hawera trainer, Walter/ McEwan, for two or three , days after his arrival from the north, but he was more/ like himself when he exercised in the middle at Riccar- 1 ton yesterday. While he has achieved his; fame mainly for his deeds over a bit of ground, Fury’s Order has that measure of class to capitalise on his present freshness and make a good fist of a sprint distance tomorrow. The field of nine for the Selwyn Handicap is the smallest for a flat race on the card, and it is doubtfub if any of the others will be; able to contain Fury’s Order as he winds up on one of hisj characteristic big finishing' runs. Fury’s Order will be! ridden tomorrow by the sue-, cessful apprentice, Brent; Thomson, who has also been; engaged to do the riding ini Melbourne. The horses closest to Fury’s Order in the weights tomor-; row were out of the money in the Winter Cup on Satur-I day, Scotch William finish- , ing sixth. Unlucky In Love . eleventh and Zebak sixteenths Te Pango Nui. which is on 51.5 kg or 10kg below Fury’s ; ’ Order, was a good second' over the same distance in the Paparua Handicap on Satur-i day. I A second runner for the i ' North Island will be Gold; Clock, sixth when win fav- 1 iourite in the Paparua Handicap after giving ground early. I