Riccarton ‘team’ should do well at Greymouth

Press, 28 November 1980, Page 18

Riccarton ‘team’ should do well at Greymouth

By

J. J. BOYLE

; Riccarton stables will bring heavy guns to bear on both Greymouth - Cup Graduation Stakes, the T.A.B. double races on the opening day of the • Greymouth Jockey Club’s meeting tomorrow.

’ Miles Better, topweight in; the first graduation stakes,' .toiled rewardingly from an Invercargill stable last: season, but he is now at ■Riccarton, and after two; Starts this time around he; should be close to his best. Miles Better’s wins last season included the Great Autumn Handicap at Riccar.ton.

it Earlier he ran a distant J second to Firpo in the Invercargill Gold Cup, and he will ‘ have that robust little Pep ■j gelding to contend with again tomorrow. ,| Star Order has shown t only flashes of form since his 1979 New Zealand Cup : victory, but he should be one of the better-chances in ■ the second leg, in which he has 53.5/

i He go a rocky run and was; 'galloped on when attempting . to win his second New Zea-i land Cup on November 15. He' was also out o flock in the running in the Benson and! Hedges a week earlier. Other Riccarton-trained hopefuls in the line-up against Star Order are Ernest, a hard-wearing veteran and a winner on the course last season; and Pen-

;.marine, a dogged stayer capable of taking up a good •'position, and battling it out : I with the best of them. :l The first six to finish in l!each of the graduation races 'will make up the field for 1 the $5375 Greymouth Cup. i to be run on the second day i of the meeting on Monday. • There will be a consolation race, worth $3OOO, for the ■ others. „