Twelve to contest first $1M race

Press, 15 July 1980, Page 20

Twelve to contest first $1M race

By W. R. CARSTON i ■ ■ i The 14-horse field, including two emergencies, for the world’s first-ever $1 million race for three-year-old pacers was announced yesterday. The one mile event, to be run at the Meadowlands Raceway, New Jersey, at 2.20 p.m. (N.Z. time) on Saturday, will be televised live and the New Zealand Totalisator Agency Board will run win, place, and quinella betting on the race. One runner among the 12 assured of a start in the race has close ties with New Zealand: Maple Fritz, is out of Miss Step, a daughter of False Step and the Dillon Hall mare Interlace. Interlace was one of the few mares covered by False Step before the treble New Zealand Cup winner was taken to compete in an

j international series in the j United States, where he • 'died. ■| Although each runner in • •Saturday’s race will have an I (individual number alloted on I the New Zealand T.A.8., a i three-horse bracket could : I cause some confusion for ;iNew Zealand television J viewers if they rely on the ■ saddle-cloth numbers to fol:ilow the progress of their - fancy. !; Tyler B, which will carry J the No. 1 saddle-cloth, is also No. 1 on the T.A.B. list ! but Stormy Damage and ! Bruce Gimble, with which he ’Js bracketed, will carry ; saddle-cloth Numbers 1A '’and IB but will be numbers i’ll and 12 respectively on the T.A.B. list. •i The telecast of the race on » Television New Zealand’s r. “Sport On One” programme ; I will start at 2 p.m., 20 mini lutes before the race starts.

The field, with form, bar-j rier draws, drivers, and the New Zealand T.A.B. numbers, is: 2.20 p.m. (N.Z. time).— MEADOWLANDS THREE-YEAR-OLD PACE

$ 1,011,000; mobile; one mile. 1 1221 Tyler B (1) W. Herman it 2 7843 Midas Almahurst (2; L. Williams It 3 4562 Gime Getme (3) W. Popfinger It 4 6643 Fundamentalist (4) G. Reigle It 5 7462 Alberton (7) J. Kopas It 6 1104 Niatross (8) C. Galbraith It 7 4914 Maple Frlti (9) R. Remmen It 8 9114 Worthy Signal (10) R. Vitrano 1 • It 9 1352 Secret Service (11) B. Webster It 10 4723 Dear Star (12) S. Goudreau It 11 2451 Storm Damage (5) W. Houghton It 12 6491 Bruce Gimble (6) G. Garnsey Emergencies: 13 5385 Denali 14 2535 Treasure Reef It