Forty-second win close at hand for Grey Way

Press, 7 November 1978, Page 23

Forty-second win close at hand for Grey Way

By

J. J. BOYLE

The eight-year-old Grey Way is acting young these days, and he will bring Riccarton to life if he breaks through for the forty-second win of his distinguished career in the Members’ Handicap, second leg of the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting tomorrow.

Grey Way’s four starts this season have yielded two seconds, a third, and an unplaced performance. He was unplaced after missing the start against the sprinters at the Banks Peninsula meeting, but came back well for his third in a blanket finish to the Jockey Club Handicap [on Saturday.

One of few top-liners ever{ to have won 13 races in one! season, Grey Way is at the i threshold of the $200,000; club and will break through! if he wins tomorrow’s I 1400 m race. Pat Corboy, who has I trained Grey Way through-j out a distinguished career,! will wear his twin caps in [ racing tomorrow. He owns as well as trains j Lejano, one of four three-1 year-olds in the field for the: Canterbury Gold Cup, and ■an obvious chance after a second in the New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas. Lejano was a plucky finisher for second behind Teddy Doon after giving the Waikato colt a good start from the home turn.

! Teddy Doon, in his; ; I present form, is capable of | ! taking the step up to 2000m' | comfortably. There is also j quiet confidence in the Holy 'Toledo camp that this big: I relaxed grey will outlast j 'most if not all the others at| | the distance. '! Of the older brigade: I Kanga s Lad and Polly PorIter have the superior claims, j i Kang’s Lad was a fast- ( finishing winner, and Polly | (Porter a dogged fourth ini (the Jockey Club Handicap. .i There was little to choose: j!between them, having regard; t for the fact that Polly Porter j I covered more ground than any of the others. The T.A.B. treble will be 1 on the Apprentices’ Handi--3 cap, the Stonyhurst Handit cap, ahd the Fendalton Handicap.