Chance for Aramis at Marlborough tomorrow

Press, 1 May 1981, Page 2 (Supplement)

Chance for Aramis at Marlborough tomorrow

By

W. K. CARSTON

Aramis’s style of front-running on a turning course like Waterlea should make him’an excellent prospect for the Penfolds Marlborough Cup, first leg of the Marlborough Racing Club’s T.A.B. double at Blenheim tomorrow.

" On his home course last Saturday Aramis failed to see out 2500 m successfully in the George Adams Handicap but tomorrow he will be going only 2000 m, a distance over which ht led all the way to win the 3ZB Easter Classic on Easter Monday. * The best of Aramis’s rivals in that $30,000 event were Orchidra, Four Crowns and The Fantasy. He will riot have to contend with stayers of the same calbre tomorrow. •« Outside of Aramis, the south will not be strongly

represented in tomorrow’s field. Dolrnar, if this race instead of the highweight is chosen as his mission, must rate cons ; deration on the strength of his last-start win against the highweighters at Riccarton on Easter Monday. Maybe Foxy, which has toiled consistently in two starts since managing 2220 m successfully at Ashburton in March, will also have his share of followers. But for all that Aramis’s strongest rivals might be North Island-trained. Fraxy’s last two runs have

not been up to his best standard but a peak effort here would be adequate to get him into the finish. Ask the Question, if he makes the trip south, Father Lou and Grand Cheval will strengthen the prospect of a North Island victory and Sir Troubadour and Aztec Gold might not be out of it either if this race is chosen as their mission. The combined efforts of Scotch Mist, Sharebroker, Timax and Napiat should put the best of the northern sprinters to the test in the

second leg, .the Dominion Breweries Handicap. Sharebroker was ah all-the-way winner over tomorrow’s distance in the Templeton Handicap at Riccarton law Wednesday week. The other three were minor place-getters in the major events for sprinters at the C.J.C. Easter meeting. The northern sprinters in tomorrow’s field with sound credentials close up on their records are Septimus, St Johann and Wolf Man.