Avon Valley fancied in Rosehill sprint

Press, 29 November 1980, Page 21

Avon Valley fancied in Rosehill sprint

NZPA Sydney The New Zealand bred colt, Lord Avon, could have his first win of the season at Rosehill today. The Avon Valley colt trained by an expatriate New Zealander, Harold Riley, has had two starts since a spell, running on powerfully for third over 1200 m at Rosehill on November 15. , Today the colt is 5-to-2j favourite for the 1400 Flem-| ings Handicap in which he I will be ridden by the former . New Zealand jockey, Tonyj Marney. Lord Avon, which won three races at Rosehill earlier in the year, carries 55.5 kg, 2kg less than the second favourite, Massacre, a Seventh Hussar colt, which won at Randwick over 1200 m last week-end. Another New Zealand bred, the four-year-old Riverton gelding, River D’Or, is also a 5-to-2 favourite for; the 1500 m Woolworths Han-i

dicap -after his second behind Tulip Town over 1500 m a fortnight ago. River D’Or was having only his second race after resuming from a spell. Topweight and at 6-to-l on the fourth line is the former South Island galloper, V/indvale Beau, now trained at Rosehill by Paul Sutherland. The Beaufort Sea gelding flashed home for third over 11200 m two starts back and' (followed that with a fifth a* I Rosehill over the same dis tance a fortnight ago.