Racing and trotting N.Z.’s top horses on show today

Press, 21 February 1978, Page 22

Racing and trotting N.Z.’s top horses on show today

Special correspondent Auckland New Zealand's best racehorses, Uncle Remus, Good Lord, Grey Way. Copper Belt and La Mer, will compete all in the space of some three hours at Te Rapa this afternoon.

from his older opponent: whom he could be expectet I to beat without muci trouble at level weights. As cending, from the inside a the barrier and with her tai ent for galloping freely ir front might get Uncl< Remus to stretch out but i seems hardly likely she wil be able to hold him in th< finish. The hardest for him t< beat will probably be th< Taranaki mare. La Mer Even if beaten in her lasi two attempts La Mer re mains a mare of real qual ity. She did not have tht best of the running, ii seems, in her last race, be fore finishing fifth ovei 2000 m at Tauherenikau at February 6 and the time be fore she ran in the Aucklanc Cup. It was a better indication of her worth when, three starts back, she won from Copper Belt, Grey Way and half a dozen others, over 1600 m at weight-for-age in the Manawatu Challenge 'Stakes. The way Carlaw and Big Gamble acquit themselves I will help decide their coninections on whether to proceed with plans for Sydney next Easter. Both horses are i in the Sydney Cup. Carlaw i in the 1600 m Doncaster Handicap as well. Selections:— 12.5 p.m—Balmoral Handicap: Proud Sabre, Teddy Doon, Cedar Gold. 12.45 p.m.—Sandown Highweight: Primeval, Roman Sun, Crack Even. 1.25 p.m. — International Stakes: Uncle Remus, La Mer, Big Gamble. 2.5 p.m.—Piggott Handicap: Punchinello, Tamboura. Tikeda. 2-50 p.m.—Waikato Stayers' Plate: Lady Roseville, Kareka, Crown Royal. 3.30 p.m.—Windsor Handicap: Blue Rule, Bold Bay, Shifilou. 4.15 p.m.—Lion Brown Sprint: Grey Way, Copper Belt, Good Lord. 4.55 p.m.—Edinburgh Handicap: Cytheria, Flaunt, Fleet Gazelle. 5.35 p.m.—Ascot Handicap: Mickey Flynn, Apostle, Royal Mallard. T.A.B. TREBLE 23 p.m.— LESTER PIGGOT HANDICAP $2025: 2000 m. 1 7321 Punchinello (5) 55.0 2 0323 Tamboura <10) 54.5 3 5414 Tikeda <7> 53.0 4 4618 Major Roll (4) 52.0

The five horses, such is their class, would not be out Cf place anywhere. One' alone, and Uncle Remus in particular, would be a great are worth going a long way ond-last start in New Zealand before he eoes tn Svdney, will be meeting La Mer and another Sydney entry, j Cariaw, in the New Zealand' Way will clash: again — they last met at 28 — in the Lion Brown and the Sydney sprinter. Wellington’s George Adams ' Handicap, over 1600 m, Cop- ' per Belt had the better of ' Grey Way narrowly. He was the winner, also, in last,' year’s Stars Travel Stakes(l6oom) at Tauranga. when Grey Way came second. LEVEL WEIGHTS , In the Adams at Trentham < the horses were on level > handicaps as they were in i > the Stars Travel Stakes, i Again, in this one, thev will 11 he at equal marks, both with Against Grey Wav is his I having drawn No. 17 at thebarrier — Copper Belt, has No. 5. But both horses j often take a little while to! work up pace although in the Adams Handicap they: started well and kept up' close to the leaders all the; Good Lord, twice winner of the Wellington Cup, has not shone as a sprinter for so long that it might be toomuch to expect him to be able to win now against thej likes of Grey Way and Copper Belt. On the other hand he looks so well after his: brief let-up that it is hard to] believe he will not make a good showing. The other prospects in- i elude the three-year-old filly,j. Braless, one of the quickest: gallopers over 1400 m and 1 1600 m. Under the weight--for-age conditions she gets a fair concession — 6kg 2 from Grey Way, Copper Belt j and Good Lord and 5.5 kg from Kaoru Prince. Braless finished only fourth in her last attempt but that was over 2400 m in' the New Zealand Oaks. She was beaten the time before, in a 2200 m handicap and was only third, three starts back, in the Roval Stakes, over 2000 m. Her previous form, over the shorter courses, was much better and included a win in the A.R.C. Ladies i Mile when she recorded , Imm 35.17 s for the 1600 m. Kaoru Prince showed all ; the pace last Saturday that has made him so successful j in Sydney but his failure to i last the 1200 m of the Hi- : Bing handicap hardly i encouraged much confidence ! in his chance over today’s ! longer course and under the i weight-for-age conditions which have him within half a kilogram of Copper Belt and Grey Way. I Uncle Remus will be trying for his eleventh win in a row when he goes out for ' the New Zealand Inter- ' national Stakes and for all ; his having a new rider he will be a hot favourite to win. Weight-for-age over the 2000 m allows him upward of 3.5 kg and as much as 6kg Grey Way (right), which will renew his rivalry with Copper Belt (below) in the I,ion Sprint at Te Rapa today.

tSI 5 6085 Father Leonard (6) 49.5 6 4004 Head Boy (2) 49.5 . 7 1597 Mastercard (8) 49.5 !h| 8 0190 Star Gaze (9) 49.5 S-ilO o'Bo Tiber Prince (1) 49.0 it ill 0550 Regenerate (3i 48.5 j ‘ Scratched: Tamaryn (11). in ___ le ■ TiTH Jftdi It I ■■■■■»• T.A.B. DOUBLE ie 2.50 p.m.— o; WAIKATO STAYERS' te PLATE r $4500; 3200 m. stj 1 0326 Fleet Symbol (12) 55.0 , | 2 2142 Crown Royal (16) 54.5 , ! 3 4380 Lady Roseville (10) 54.0 1- 4 7161 Kareka (4) 52.0 ie: 5 5240 Red Lucifer (29) 52.0 j r 6 4538 Toupet Royale i9> 52.0 7 3466 Beric (7) 51.0 8 2159 Colonel Buzz (5) 50.5 St- 9 3033 All Rock 1.6) 50.0 rn' 10 0560 Hasty Arrow (15) 50.0 . ill 0092 Shut Eyes 113) 49.5 ’ 12 0273 Lord Aly 181 49.3 u 13 0965 David Campbell (211 48.51 n 14 0368 Activate (17) 48.0: •15 7594 Artesian ili 48.01 ;e fl7' 5990 Sir Retta -18) 48.0 t)!18 0087 Starman (3) 48.0 j 20 0040 Upward Bound (19) 48.0 j Balloted out in order of re*J entrv: nil 6 2040 Corporal Jest (11) 48.0 e :2l 8090 Zambesi (14) 48.0 ' ,19 0080 Tiber Prince (2) 48.0 81 . iyj T.A.B. TREBLE ”* el v j 3.30 p.m.— , r | WINDSOR HANDICAP $2025; 1400 m. ‘ 1 7111 Blue Rule <8) 60.0 2 1249 Bayshore (7) 54.0 3 4785 Shifilou (2) 53.5 ( 4 0120 El Senada (10) 53.0 , I 5 1547 Mirabillis i 4) 51.0 i 6 0970 Copsana (1) 50.5 . . 7 0100 Dac I 16» 50.5 , 1 8 4060 San Antonia (3) 50.5 | 9 0353 Bold Bay (ID 50.0 110 67-91 All Fours <l2> 49.5 :1l 6860 Charlivari (9- 49.0 ’ 12 2075 Evelure (131 49.0 14 7109 Solo's Dream (5) 49.0 115 5904 Welcome Edition (15) 49.0 116 0080 Scoring (14) 48.0 ' 17 6800 Wonder Wave 'l7) 48.0 Scratched: Fetching (6). T.A.B. DOUBLE ' 4.15 p.m.— LION BROWN SPRINT i $27,590; weight-for-age; 1400 m. : 1 9050 April Wine (6) 57.5 | 2 0976 Blanco Sol (7) . 57.5 ; 3 3103 Caruba (11) 57.5 I 4 2031 Chrisarda (13) 57.5 5 1211 Copper Belt )5) 57.5 ! 6 3112 Good Lord (14) 57.5 I 7 3612 Grey Way (17) 57.5 I 8 1243 Extra Flash (2) 57.0 9 4 Kaoru Prince (12) 57.0 . 10 0287 Silver Boy (4) 57.0 111 0021 Tee Pee Gold (16) 57.0 12 6088 Belle Maree (1) 56.0 13 0980 Sea Egg (3) 56.0 14 9401 Lady Belle (15) 55.5 0115 1443 Wandelle (18) 55.5 j 16 2072 Forecast (10) 53.0 O', 17 3406 Reppin (8) 53.0 O’lB 1374 Braless (9) 51.5 .

T.A.B TREBLE 5.25 p.m.— ASCOT HANDICAP $3000; 1600 m. 1 7906 Royal Mallard (7) 5i 2 2201 Apostle (8) sa. 3 2051 Madame Mink < 10) 55.4 7428 Morven Chief (9) 55.1 5 392 Better Be Good (5) 53.5 8 6601 Vendor (14) 51.0 9 1038 Fair Steve (15) 50.5 10 6936 Melody Heights (13) 50.5 11 8503 Crystal Star (1) 50.0 12 0006 Jackwill (12) 50.0 13 2232 Mickey Flynn (2) 59.0 14 1897 Princess Soraya (4) 49.5 15 0709 Indian Gold (ID 49.0 17 9758 Sheza Sweet (17) 49.0 Scratched: Just Serene (3), Royal Pride (16), Morton Dale]