A.J.C. Derby start likely
NZPA Melbourne Our Paddy Boy’s comeback run a: Moonee Vallp.y ion Tueidav may have earreo (him a start in the $200,000 A. .1. C. Derby (2400 m at Ranuv.ici.- mi Aon! 20. Our Pad ly Bov held on to beat Edge by a ha f j head in the Cufagh Handi-j cap (1600 m after being hin-i dered during the race. i Our Paddy Boy was in! front and clear in the; straight but Razor’s Edge battled on to peg him back in the run home.
If Our Paddy Boy runs in the Derby it will give his trainer, Colin Hayes, two starters in the race. He has Find the Gold as a definite runner.
Our Paddy Boy was third in the weight-for-age W. S. Cox Plate and third in the V. R. C. Derby last spring
land has now had 16 starts l for five wins, two seconds ■and a third. He almost collapsed after finishing last [behind Hyperno in the : weight-for-age Australian ; Cup (2000 m at Flemington' on March 7. j He had to trial and be! jcleared by Stewards before! 'he could race again. I
“I don’t know what was wrong with him,” said Hayes. “We did have a strangles virus go through our stable in Adelaide and he may have caught some sort of mundane form of it.
“He had a heavy temperature after the Australian Cup but he is all right now,” Hayes said.
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