Spy Force selected to win Amberley Cup

Press, 9 May 1980, Page 2 (Supplement)

Spy Force selected to win Amberley Cup

By

J. J. BOYLE

, Spy Force has the talent and temperament to make a successful switch to middle distance racing in the Amberlev Cup at Rangiora tomorrow.

A five-year-old from the family that came up with the distinguished middle distance performers Howe and Grey Boots, Spy Force has been winning 1400 m races this season in the stvle of a horse unlikely to be troubled by more ground. In the most recent of

Spy Force has 55.5 and is half a kilogram below ; Her Greatest, last year's Amberley Cup winner, and one of the obvious fancies again after a close second at! the Winton meeting on Mon-j day. Other well-performed southerners in a capacity Amberley Cup field are Can-

those victories, the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Waltham Handicap, he came from last to snatch victory by half a head. The power of his finishing run again marked his performance when he won by two lengths over 1400 m at the Hororata meeting at Riccarton on February 29.

dyboy and Deep Mystery Colfix, as winner of the corresponding race on this course on March 31. will possibly’ be Canterbury’s Ibest-backed runner after Spy I Force. But Firpo has freshened so well since Easter that he could be a top contender.