Rocky Leigh will make it hard for Wingatui rivals

Press, 30 September 1977, Page 19

Rocky Leigh will make it hard for Wingatui rivals

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J. J. BOYLE

I Rocky Leigh s third in the Geraldine Cup on Monday carried the almost ceriain (stamp of an early victory. I He will get his chance in the D. P. Wilson. Memorial first leg of the Otago Racing Club’s T.A.B double tomorrow. j Mr and Mrs Joe Brown’s attractive four-year-old (surprised many in finishing ; little more than a length and a half from Cands bos in the Geraldine Cup after

being forced over a lot of ground from the outside of the field. Last season he showed his; prowess at 1600 m. the dis-[ tance of tomorrow’s race, by running Waronui to a length on a heavy track in the Dunedin Guineas, and to a nose in the Southland Guineas. He started the present I season well by winning the; Canterbury jockey Club’s; i Paparua Handicap on a i heavy trac k. Diamond Pal. and Fleetwood Mac, winners for Southland stables at the Grand National meeting, willj come in for much attention tomorrow. Their aptitude in bad ground will assure them of solid bar king, but the younger Rockv Leigh might edge them out'. Candy buy was an unlucky fourth behind Diamond -Pal *jft *t!i* Winter € up, and’Mi

Geraldine Cup win earlier this week was evidence of his good progress since. ii Arccllo is another Wtng-atui-trained galloper with a good background on winter tracks, and the victory, by,

I s 13 lengths, of the Wash- .' dyke-trained Ambrose Lodge ’. lat the Otago Hunt meeting ' will not or should not. be i forgotten when he reappears J over the same distance to- 5 i morrow.