Carlaw faces stern task
NZPA Sydney I Carlaw will return to weight-for-age racing in the $20,000 George Main Stakes (1600mj at Randwick today. On Saturday, the Avondaletrained gelding ran ninth in the Epsom Handicap but a week earlier at Rosehill he downed a high-class field which included Battle Heights, Trochee and Happy Union to win the weight-for-age Hill Stakes. The six-year-old’s fast finishing style of racing will be better suited to today’s expected field of seven than was the ease when confionting 24 starters in the Epsom Handicap. On that occasion. Carlaw came from last on the turn. Under the w.-f.-a. conditions.: however, he meets a number of! Epsom runners on considerably harder terms. Carlaw will share the 58.5 kg top-weight with New Zealand-bred Manawapoi, eighth in the Epsom, but meets Manawapoi 4kg worse off. Blockbuster. Romantic Dream and Makara. which finished third, fourth ahd fifth respectively in the Epsom, will also line up in the George Mains Stake*.
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