Red Anchor hot favourite

Press, 2 November 1984, Page 35

Red Anchor hot favourite

NZPA Melbourne The Sydney trainer, Tommy Smith, was full of confidence that Red Anchor would give him a record breaking 31 Derby successes at Flemington tomorrow after seeing the champion colt work there yesterday morning.

The winner of the Cox Plate in course record time, Red Anchor will go in to the sAust3oo,ooo Victoria Derby (2500 m an odds-on favourite to give Smith his fifth winner in the race.

Smith and New Zealand trainer, the late Dick Mason, hold the Southern Hemisphere record with 30 wins each and his Victoria Derby winners to date are Tulloch (1957), Travel Boy (1959), Silver Sharpe (1970) and Brewery Boy (1981).

“He is as good now as he was going into the Cox Plate last week,” said Smith after watching Red Anchor work with his main Melbourne Cup hope, Alibhai.

Red Anchor, with his race rider, Mick Dittman, in the saddle, worked over 1600 m on the course proper in 1:50.55. The pair sprinted home the last 600 m in 375.

The markers were out 10m.

Jetbet: 8 Race 1 4.15 VICTORIA DERBY $300,000; three-year-olds; 2500m 1 1111 Red Anchor 7 55.5 2 2224 Lord of Camelot 2 55.5 3 3831 Clovelly Bay 4 55.5 4 1302 National Gallery 1 55.5 5 8109 Luck’s A Lottery 8 55.5 6 2017 Gold Deck 5 55.5 7 4112 Callenza 6 55.5 8 5313 So Torrid 9 55.5 9 3133 Spirit Of Kingston 355.5 Race 2 5.35 L K. S. MACKINNON STAKES $50,000; weight-for-age; 2000m 1 3921 Affinity 2 58.5 2 0116 Colonial Flag 9 58.5 3 1209 Penny Edition 7 58.5 4 6254 Rosh 6 58.5 5 7214 Alibhai 5 57.0 6 3152 Bounty Hawk 3 57.0 7 942 Irish Lord 1 57.0 8 0869 Librici 8 57.0 9 7151 Golaan 4 47.0 Race 3 6.11) THE DALGETY $40,000; 2500m 1 091 Chagemar 8 56.0 2 5350 Hussar’s Command 1 55.5 3 1318 Foxseal 2 53.5 4 9172 Black Knight 3 52.5 5 1400 Forward Charge 5 52.5 6 4214 Baglaga Boy 4 52.0 7 6000 Look Aloft 6 50.5 8 4188 Saddleback 9 49.5 9 4005 Admiral Blair 7 49.0