Serious test for 'L.B.J.'

Press, 26 August 1980, Page 20

Serious test for 'L.B.J.'

NZPA Sydney: Little Brown Jug is this' morning to have his first! main run — at Sandown — since arriving from New Zealand. ■' Now a fIR-l favourite for the $205,000 Caulfield Cun (2'OOm) on October 18, Little Brown Jug will work v’ith fellow Mew Zealander Bunvaro and last vear’s Victoria Derby winner Big Print. The horses will have a. snecial gallop over 1200 m toj ofir; J. J. Liston Stakes (w.f.a.) ov"'- 14O n ra on Saturdav. The New Zealand jockey: P. J. Skelton, is to ride Uttle Brown Jus in the special gallon and wiij a No ride him in the Liston at the we°k-end. Little Brown Jug firmed to favourite for the Caulfield Cup after the poor performance of Mtehty Kingdom at Moonee Valley on Q auirdav. Mighty Kingdom had been favourite for Freeway Stakes in which Bunvaro had been due tn take part i but had to withdraw after nulling up sore after a gal-! lop during the week. ■ However, al! •’oing we’l, Bunvaro is expected to be in the Liston which should see'

other well-performed horseslike the-imported stayer Bohemian Grove, making his Australian debut, and Free-; way -winner Grey Sapphire' taking part. Others include Gondolier, Brava Jeannie, Mighty Kingdom, ..Big Print, Warri Symbol, Waitangirua and Family of Man, which ran an impressive second to Grey Sapphire on Saturday. The imported Irish stayer Bohemian/.Grove, is owned by Mr Robert Sangster’s i Swettenham Stud syndicate and is with the C. S. Hayes stable. I He was expected to be ■ ridden by the former New

jockey Brent Thomson, in' the J. J. Liston Stakes but Mick Maliy on ■(will probably now have the J ride after the suspension of Thomson for three weeks by' , stewards at the week-end. Thomson,the top jockey ■ in Victoria last season, is not to appeal against the • suspension given him after ’ stewards concluded an inquiry into -.interference at ■ Caulfield the week before. i He was suspended until i September 12 on a cateless s riding charge and will there- ; fore miss ;both the Liston Stakes and the W.F.A. Mem- : sie Stakes (1400 m at ' Caulfield on September 6. ■