Improved run expected from Secured Deposit

Press, 3 October 1983, Page 33

Improved run expected from Secured Deposit

NZPA Sydney Secured Deposit’s best hope of winning today’s $120,000 Metropolitan Handicap at Warwick Farm lies in a new bit being employed to stop the giant gelding hanging in. His stand-in trainer, Dave Sweeney, who is deputising for the New Zealander, Neville Atkins, said yesterday that the Kirrama gelding’s behaviour in the straight during the Queen’s Cup over the same 2400 m last week, cost him a certain placing. “He just wasn’t taking any notice of the jockey in the straight, and the jockey had to keep on trying to straighten him rather than concentrating on getting him in the line,” said Sweeney.

Sweeney was happy with the way Secured Deposit was going ahead during training last week and said he had worked over a good mile on both Thursday and Saturday, as well as 700 m on Tuesday.

“I don’t know about his chance. If it’s run the same way as it was last week, then I think you’ll get the same picture. If they don’t panic as much, then I think he’ll have a better chance,” he said.

Secured Deposit meets nine of the horses he raced in the Queen’s Cup at Warwick Farm last week, including the winner, the former New Zealander, Noble Heights.

The race was run at a fast pace, and Sweeney is looking to a steadier pace today. Sweeney noted that Secured Deposit’s fifth last week was only his second

start after a spell, and with that run under his belt would be better today. “He never stopped going forward last time and in fact, he helped Noble Heights to her win because she tracked him into the straight before she made her run,” he said. Noble Height’s trainer, Neville Begg, said yesterday that he did not believe the tight triangular Warwick Farm track would suit Secured Deposit. He predicted Chiamare and Skyhawk 11, and four-year-old, Hayai, would be the ones to beat. And he questioned the fitness of the tough six-year-old Alcimedes gelding, No Peer, which has not gone further than 2000 m in his four starts since returning from a year-long layoff. Begg, however, had no worries about Noble Heights. He said that the Sir Tristram mare had held her form since her eye-catching win last week. But he stopped short of predicting another win. Secured Deposit has the same outside draw for the Metropolitan as he did in the Queen’s Cup. Noble Heights will again be going out of Barrier No. 13. The tactics would be left to top jockey, Ron Quinton, who last week scored a hattrick starting with Noble Heights, going on with Sir Dapper in the Spring Champion Stakes, then capping it with Emancipation in the George Main Stakes. Among the good-class opposition is a Tommy Smith quartet, Chiamare, Our Shout, Lancelotto and Together Again. Chiamare won the Winfield Gold Cup at Newcastle two starts back.

The Zamazaan gelding, Lancelotto, and the Sir Tristram four-year-old, Tristram Lad, are backing up from disappointing performances in the Cabochon Quality over 2100 m last Saturday week. Eyes will also be on the Bart Cummings trio, No Peer, Princess Romilda and Sky Cherub, after Cummings trained six winners at Warwick Farm and Flemington on Saturday. Others worth watching are the remarkable Tulsa Knight, which has four wins and two seconds in the last six starts, and Lord Seaman, which as the race lightweight beat the New Zealander, My Axeman, in the Fourex Cup in Brisbane on July 9, but has done little since.

Jbt: 2 Tab: HM Race 1 4.55 T.A.B. QUINELLA METROPOLITAN HANDICAP $120,000; 2400m. 1 3785 No Peer 6 J. Marshall. 55.5 2 2213 Chemore 17 L. Dittman. 55.0 3 1211 Tulsa Knight 14 T. Duckett. 54.0 4 9866 Our Shout 12 L. Olsen. 53.5 5 75 Secured Deposit 18 T. Williams. 53.5 6 5222 Hayai 4 N. Voigt. 52.5 7 0208 Lord Seaman 20 M. Logue. 52.0 8 2331 Noble Heights 13 R. Quinton. 51.5 9 1187 Gala Mascot 5 W. Camer. 51.0 10 7003 Lancelotto 2 50.5 11 J. Duggan. 1619 Stilyiara 1 R. Hardwicke. 50.5 12 1032 Princess Romila 19 K. Langby. 50.0 13 0036 Together Z.gdin 7 B. Beadman. 49.0

14 3724 Tristman Lad 10 50.0 P. Cook. 15 5080 II Rubino 8 G. Nock. 49.0 16 7564 Baron Cayne 11 J. Scorse. 48.5 17 1113 Hot Ally 15 K. Banks. 48.5 18 4212 Sky Cherub 3 B. Campton. 48.5 19 0309 Admiral Lincoln 16 D. Gauci. 48.0 20 1311 Heroic Blaze 9 A. Thompson. 48.0