Great trial for Brisbane Cup

Press, 13 June 1977, Page 18

Great trial for Brisbane Cup

| NZPA Brisbane My Good Maa Good Lord; jfirmed as the 3-to-l equal fav- ; ourite with Reckless for today s ib65.000 Brisbane Cup tS2OOm) j with a record-breaking win in ;the 2200 m Winston Churchill ' Stakes at Eagie Farm on Satur- ' day. Yesterday a very happy Kay ; Verner, trainer of the five-year-i old Zamazaan entire, declared : that his charge “would have to ;have a good show.” I The bookmakers consider My i Good Man better than that, and : Verner agreed that the horse twill be hai*d to beat. I “You would have to be frightened of Reckless. Which is a [proven two-miler, and Ngawyni j is obvious!.' a verv class' horse/’ ■ Verner said. He said he was delighted with My- Good Man’s performance on Saturday and described his con-! i I Ij i < t 1 ( t s I t t c f V f € S II S s 5 4 5 s o V tl S o fi h n 4. 4 I

leidition as "very good Indeed?J.’ But he retains some res#S« dilations over the effect which tid v- lack of one race iu New Zealja-f s’—a planned start over 2200*7 a) Ellerslie in early May— etrge n have had on the intended btf.ld- 1 11 up. The race was missed ’net b cause uf a stone bruise. 4 » ' On Saturday, Good Lord far' (y ried 56kg in going to a f»if r- length victory over the fast ik ’ d Ishing Militant Ttoad. ‘a o In a perfectly .ridden for New Zealand jockey Koger lip.' v I kicked My Good Man well dj In the straight after e (New Zealand-bred ■ Serene (Hermes—Sweet i i*t . i Lang did not have to rid9.'!•. a (Good Man hard to the posf l'*t j’ the time Of 2inin 14see s::issb*d ■■ the race record of 2min 15 8 aftq was only o Ssec outside' t’q , course record. ■»«, Golden Khan and former (Zealand galloper Gold DS* ‘"[(fourth) were tile only clj eg (Brisbane I tip eontendeis ame: ; ’the eight starteis. and although both meet M 1 Good Mar. ■•i slightly better terms today i c.w present no thnat on saturdaYk performances. •. » My Good Man will carry ;re» second top-weight of 57kg in today's cup. Tl’at is 4kg mure ti-ars (he carried when pinning lh<» .’Wellington Cup on a slow rr.r, l ’tham track in January. • , Verner said many people ■’would consider the Wel'nngtcie ? i up an even more difficult re * :!to win than the Melbourne Cup? I and he pointed out that My Goo<i (Man had carried 56.5 kg In wl:-.- ’ ining the Queen Elizabeth Cuj> ; (2200 m at Te Kapa In February? Reckless will be trying to add- ’ I the Brisbane Cup to the Sydney- ' and Adelaide Cups in his attempt l to win a grand slam of Australia's four major staying races.' He has not raced since win? nlng the Adelaide Cup on May’ 16. The veteran trainer. Tom' | Woodcock, who once attended to l the Immortal Phar Lap, will b<” i bringing Reckless up from Me’-* [bourne this morning on a spe I cial air charter in a repeat at | his race-day tactics for the sur.prise win in the Sydney Cup at ' I Easter. „ ’ ’ Keekless will carry 55.5kf. ’ 3.5 kg more than in the Adelaide ’ Cup. Ngawvnl is the hots* that most fears. Trained bv big-race specialist Bart Cummings, 'he will come into today’s event I looking for a sixth successive win. Ngawyni is untried beyond 2600 m. and at ills last start on June 4 was a comfortable winner over My Good Man In the 2200 m weight-ior-age O’Shea Stakes at Eagle Farm. Ngawyni’s topweight of 59.5 kg means that My Good Man meets him on 3kg bet ter terms today . Being quoted at 9-to-2 on a second line of betting are the Brisbane hope, Rhalif. and the three-year-old filly. Surround. New Zealand-owned, but raged bv a Melbourne group whiclutneludes trainer Geoff MurgSiy, Surround had to be ecratebed ’ from the Queensland Derby a week ago and. with her weight of 54kg In open company, could find the 3200 m distance too eevere a test. Rhalif has 51.5 kg and has shown sound form since finishing third to Reckless on the S-’dney Lup. He had to carry s*kg when finishing third last start to Ngawyni and My Good Man in the O’Shea Stakes. Of the rest of the field, th* 46kg bottom-weights Florissa ard Silken Lace could provide the surprises. Florissa, 12-to-l, bred and owned by the former Ail B'ack captain and coach, F. R. Allen, won the Queensland Derby In the absence of Surround, and Silken Lace (10-to-l), a four-year old mare, has won at her last five starts in restricted class. At her last start she set a course record over 2400 m at. Rosehill 4.50 p.m. iN.Z.) time.— BRISBANE CUP $65,000 ; 3200 m. 1 1111 Ngawyni ill' .5 R. Higgins 2 8221 My Good Man (10' S7.fi R. Lang 3 2111 Reckless (9 $5.5 P. Trotter 4 0111 Surround <l3l 54.0 fi. Trevena 5 3175 Rhalif (7) $lB P. Cook 6 4132 Taras Regent ,14) 516 M. Schumacher 7 5314 Grey Affair (11) G. Palmer 8 2353 Golden Khan (,8) 5f.» G. Cook , • 9 1421 Tod Bay 3) 494 K. Langby 10 7142 Zelenski 5) <«.S L. Dittman 1! 5474 Gold Disc (1) 47.0 G. Hall 13 0437 End Of Th* Line 4< P. Murphv 46« 14 9211. Florissa <«) «'J G. Killen 18 lilt Silken Lac* <2) 46 8 I. Wemowskl Scratched: Paris Court ’15 1 .