Mein picks up Great Easter mount on Flying View
By
J. J. BOYLE
The Riccarton jockey Michael Mein was engaged yesterday to ride Flying View, one of the top chances in the Great Easter Handicap, first leg of the Canterbury Jockey Clubs T.A.B. double today.
Shane Laming, who rode Flying View when he won the Wellington Racing Club’s Telegraph Handicap and has also partnered the Orari speedster in most of his other victories this season, is held to an earlier engagement to ride Great Day in the Great Easter. The Invercargill-trained Great Day is a stablemate of Miles Better, Michael Mein’s mount in the Great Autumn Handicap, second leg of today’s T.A.B. double. Flying View has fashioned his good sprinting record on both firm and soft tracks.
and will be high on the fan- I cied list whatever the weather prospects today. Along with Spy Force and ' Scotch Mist, he presented a : formidable • line-up for Canterbury in the 1400 m sprint race. 1 Scotch Mist goes into today's race as a top-ranking i sprinter, and, : to judge from a brilliant gal- ' lop on Saturday, right at the i top of his form. He has had a busy season but that was ' not apparent on Saturday i when he galloped 800 m wide i out on the course proper at ' Riccarton in 49.65. i “His wide barrier is my
i are selected to quinella the , Great Autumn Handicap : today. ’ Her Greatest showed her mastery of this distance • (2500 m in winning the Aut--1 umn Plate at Riccarton a u year ago. t Firpo was third in the ' Benson and Hedges Gold [ Cup at the last New Zaland r Cup at the last New Zealand , over 2600 m with 56kg in the ' Invercargill Gold Cup in No- ’ vember. t The easing in the ground 1 after light rain yesterday puts more gloss on Firpo’s > prospects.
biggest worry,” said Scotch Mist’s trainer, Ray Harris, who prepared Greek Magic to win the Great Easter two years ago. Spy Force was the central figure in a controversial Great Easter last year. He was first home, lost the race on a decision by the judicial committee, but was restored as the winner on appeal. He also triumphed in the Waltham Handicap at this meeting a year ago, as he did not look far below that level of form, when second at Rangiora a week ago. Her Greatest and Firpo
Mein picks up Great Easter mount on Flying View
Press, 7 April 1980, Page 14
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