Stiff Arm backed before test

Press, 21 June 1980, Page 21

Stiff Arm backed before test

NZPA Sydney Four former Wallah} greats are banking on a stif arm even before the Austra lian and All Black team: take the field for today’: test at the Sydney Cricke Ground. There won’t be a murmui ,of protest from the rugbj judiciary, and the only pros Jpect for an early shower is >an eight stone tearaway ir . silks. And if he does manage ito land it, he’s sure to bt rewarded handsomely. | The man in silks — the : jockey, Stephen Scofield — j will "ride a two-year-olc icalled Stiff Arm in the Citaition’. Handicap (1200 m at I Rosehill — an hour and a half before the kick off at the S.C.G. • Barracking from the mem- ' bers enclosure will be font former rugby internationals — Peter Crittle, Ross Turnhull. John O'Gorman and Dr

:yl The unraced colt is ownec by Crittle and Turnbull y trained by Dr Chapman anc ff leased to a syndicate which i-1 includes O’Gorman. is i According to Crittle, the ’s:colt virtually named itself jti“My wife, Penny, thought oi ■it because his dam is callee tri Early Shower which we alsc yiown,” he said. s- “In rugby slang, an early is I shower means being sent ofi ni— something that’s happend ;e'to Ross, Geoff and myself at iei various stages of our careers I — and most players seem to eibe sent off for stiff arm — tackles.” d After, it is hoped, cleaning i-1 up at Rosehill, Stiff Arm’s it:connections will dash across a town for the other half of it i the day’s action at the Sydney Cricket Ground. i-i. “But we’ll be quite happy r'to back only one stiff arm s on the day,” quipped Turn-i-ibull, who managed the Wallrabies on their 1978 tour of