Worldly Mist might be stumbling block

Press, 20 November 1981, Page 1 (Supplement)

Worldly Mist might be stumbling block

By

J. J. BOYLE

Worldly Mist might be a youthful stumbling block for the others in the Miss Scenicland Stakes, first leg of the Westland Racing Club’s T.A.B. double tomorrow.

She is the only three-year-old in the field for the weight-for-age race for females and with 48kg she could present some problems for her elders. A Balios filly from the Tuahiwi team of Ray and Barbara Harris, Worldly Mist has done her latest racing in her own age group. Last Saturday she finished fifth in the New Zealand One Thousand Guineas after being held up briefly for a run near the home turn. Two starts back she was

third little more than two lengths from Row of Waves in the North Canterbury Racing Club’s Canterbury Stakes. That was a run that gained in stature when Row of Waves went on to Riccarton to run third in the New Zealand Two Thousand Guineas and a close second in the Canterbury Cup. Earlier in October Worldly Mist was a good second best of the 12 fillies in the Geraldine Challenge Stakes when coming from the back to run Sea Princess to three-quar-ters of a length.

Sea Princess ran up to that form with a third in the New Zealand One Thousand Guineas. . Pennianne and Short Stops should offer the main strength of opposition to Worldly Mist tomorrow. Pennianne will be having her second start this time up, but her connections passed over chances to race her more often when the tracks firmed up in the spring. If the track is soft or worse at Hokitika she should

go close to improving her serviceable record. Oldsters in Hi Roona, In the Clear, and Ernest will have their backers in the Jack Pegley Memorial, second leg of the T.A.B. double, but they might have to bow to Pompous Prince. This six-year-old has lacked the class of his half-brother Little Brown Jug, but he has a sharp sprint at 1200 m or thereabouts around turns and would be a popular winner for the Riccarton stable of Garth Jackson.