Davison mounts could win Banks Peninsula double

Press, 26 October 1984, Page 11

Davison mounts could win Banks Peninsula double

By

J. J. BOYLE

The Riccarton jockey, Grant Davison, will partner a likely pair in Upper Cut and Julie’s Boy in a bid to carry off the Banks Peninsula Racing Club’s T.A.B. double tomorrow.

Upper Cut, top weight in the Blooms Plate, started his five-year-old racing promisingly with a second at the Geraldine meeting on October 13. He had to bow to the Orari-trained La Pomme, but only by half a length, and the bigger Motukarara course could help him turn the tables this time.

Dainty Dish, Ranfurly Lass, and Tirana, the divi-dend-payers in the corresponding race at the North Canterbury meeting on Monday, lend depth to the amount of form for the 1400 m race. And a good case can be made also for General Beaufort, a big, promising four-year-old from the Pat Corboy stable at Wash-

dyke. General Beaufort has done his latest racing outside Canterbury and his win in the 1600 m Wilson Memorial at Wingatui on September 22 gained in stature when Queen’s Pal, the runner-up, went on to win the Huttons Handicap in strong company at Trentham last Saturday. Reingard, another winner

at Wingatui on September 22, is the most likely stumbling block, if there is to be one, for Julie’s Boy in the Stevens Banks Peninsula Cup, second leg of the T.A.B. double. Reingard’s two wins from three starts this season have been at 1600 m and 1400 m, but his performances bear the stamp of a young horse likely to develop his full

powers over longer trips. Whether he is good enough to keep the seasoned Julie’s Boy out at the end of 2200 m might be one of the big question marks over tomorrow’s race. Julie’s Boy, like Reingard, has had three starts this season, but the latest was as recent as last Monday, when he ran a good second in the North Canterbury Cup.