Silver Jewel Bright Prospect

Press, 24 April 1986, Page 32

Silver Jewel Bright Prospect

Special correspondent Auckland Silver Jewel looks a prospect for Avondale tomorrow and an even better chance to win at Te Awamutu in the first leg of the Waipa Racing Club’s T.A.B. double, the El Alamein Handicap. A four-year-old mare, by Silver Dream from Lady Trustful, Silver Jewel is trained by Graham Venn, who is also a part-owner, so she will be on her home track If the Te Awamutu race is selected for her. Silver Jewel is in the right form, too, having followed a third and a fourth placing with a laststart win in a class 4 1600 m at Te Rapa on Thursday last week. She shows promise of becoming a useful stayer, more than likely she would last tomorrow’s 2000 m better than most of her opponents. The hardest for Silver Jewel to beat would probably be Top Tune, a four-year-old mare which showed during the summer that she could run a solid middle-distance, and Inner Force, after a string of minor placings is due to win. A last-start equal winner at Avondale on April 11, McAdam, and one of the better three-year-olds fillies, Misty Topaz, are prospects for the second leg, the RSA Handicap. Misty Topaz has been tackling much totigher opposition, and acquitting herself well in her most recent races. Two starts back she won a 1600 m race at Ellerslie. A run of minor placings, earlier, brought her fifth placings in the Manawatu Thoroughbred Breeders’ Stakes and Galilee Stakes (Te Awamutu) and fourth in Ellerslie’s Royal Stakes.