So Called clear favourite

Press, 29 August 1978, Page 21

So Called clear favourite

NZPA Melbourne The New Zealand-bred horse So Called (SobigCalling) is a clear outright j favourite for the Caulfield I Cup after his magnificent | two lengths and a quarter win in the $20,000 J. J. Lis-; iton Stakes (1400 m at San'down on Saturday, j The four-year-old entire | came eight wide on the turn and effortlessly drew clear to convincingly defeat a; classy weight-for-age field. It was his first race since; finishing fourth to Hypemo! in the Adelaide Cup last May. This time it was Hypemo’s! tum to trail So Called to the' post, and the five-year-old > New Zealand-bred gelding: finished strongly for second'

two lengths clear of Dark Port, the only Australianbred among the 11 starters. Lefroy (Decies —Beaute de L'Or), which had been disputing Caulfield Cup favouritism with So Called, ran a fighting fourth. In the newly framed markets for the Caulfield Cup I (2400 m to be run on October 21. So Called is at 4/1 and Lefroy the second favourite at 7/1. So Called was ridden on i Saturday by New Zealand ‘jockey Brent Thomson, who declared him as probably the i best horse he had ever I ridden. It was a great day for the I Melbourne-based New ZeaHand jockeys, with Brian ■Andrews riding three winJners and Gary Willetts and i Midge Didham also having I'successes.