Graikos will be popular choice at Ashburton

Press, 29 April 1978, Page 20

Graikos will be popular choice at Ashburton

By

G. K. YULE

Form in the non-total-isator event for maiden ! pacers at the New Brighton; meeting on Tuesday should' have an important bearing on the outcome of two races! at the Ashburton meeting! today. The race at Addington! was won in most convincing! style by Graikos, which had! a length and a half to spare: over the three-year-old, 1 Scottish Loch, at the end of I 2600 m run in the extremely i fast time of 3min 26.35. Graikos will have his sec-1

|ond race start in the; ; Uesworth Handicap today! and he should carry on his! winning way. This member! | of Sam Ballantyne’s team ' looks to be well above average in ability and he should I take a high ranking. A ! three-year-old by Jersey ; Hanover, he is out of Viva I Reine and he lacks nothing lon the score of breeding. ! Cards Inn and Don Cortez I ! should be the hardest for! him to beat, although the 1 I chances of Cava d’Oro, (Ladyship Khan, Terrace! : Dream and Gerry Junior! I must be considered. J

Scottish Loch was no! I match for Graikos, but his■ ! run was much superior toj I that of his rivals. If he races 1 with the same dash, he should win the Lowcliffel Handicap, the first leg of the on-course treble. Scottish Loch has always looked use- . ful and he should master the 3200 m distance quite comIpetently. I Orphan had appeals as a! (Staying type and he could be! | a threat to the probable! jfavourite, while bold runs! ■are also expected from; J Buckley and All Aglow.