Clive Comet favoured at Randwick

Press, 26 July 1980, Page 20

Clive Comet favoured at Randwick

NZPA Sydney, New. Zealand . galloper j Clive Comet, winner of the! Ipswich Cup last .week, is a top chance for the $lO,OOO Derek Glasgow Handicap, (2000 m at Randwick today. I • Hastings trainer Arnold i Gregory has Clive Comet! and Charlie both running at Randwick but Clive Comet, looks to have the better, chance. i

■ ( He is racing in great, ■jform, as shown by his fightjing win in the 2150 m Ips-, wich Cup and has been pic-s ,ked as 9-2 second favourite! ibehind the T. J. (Tom)i I Smith-trained Reckon I’m ! i Ready (5-2). i The former New Zealand' gelding Happy Landing, is! another with a. good chance: .in the-race. Trained by V. P, I (Paul) Sutherland, Happy!

: Landing ran third . in the S.T.C. Winter Handicap at - Rosehill last week and is - i joint . second favourite ..with, qClive Cornet for today!; j Charlie is racing in the 41400 m Newport Welter for| i which another Sutherland! ; i horse, Wotta Krakka, an ; !Adios II gelding, is 5-2 '(favourite,..' : I The six-year-old Charlie, al

: brother to Clive Comet, has t not won a race in his Australian campaign, getting [.closest to the winning post jwith a second at Bundamba earlier this month. |! Heading for his fourth win ■in a row is the New Zea-land-bred colt Lord Warden, I trained by former New ZeaI lander Harold Riley.