Lomondy and Kiwi will create interest at Hastings

Press, 12 September 1986, Page 25

Lomondy and Kiwi will create interest at Hastings

Special correspondent Wellington The performances of Lomondy and Kiwi in the weight-for-age Trailways Ormond, the first leg of the T.A.B. double at the Hawke’s Bay Jockey Club’s meeting at Hastings on Saturday will be watched with a little more than passing interest. Both gallopers, along with Whitole, have made the first declaration for the Melbourne Cup, while one of their race rivals, Melbeck, is still in the Caulfield Cup. Both Lomondy and Kiwi have raced once in a new campaign. Lomondy finished close up in eighth place in the Rogers last Saturday, and Kiwi made a little ground on unsuitable track when resuming seven days earlier. Whitole kicks off his current campaign this week while Melbeck will be as seasoned as any galloper racing at Hastings. He ’ was fifth in the Rogers and won the Amalgamated Handicap at Riccarton, earlier in the season. Our Boyfriend, which is trained at Hastings, should run strongly, he went under by a long neck at Foxton to Mellay Strait in the 2000 m Sevens Bremner Handicap. Catering King will be the major drawcard and favourite for the Byerley Stakes, the second leg of the T.A.B. double. Catering King won the Foxbridge Plate at Te Rapa after running second in the McGinty behind Bour-

bon Boy, and won his last four races last season. Honour Bright, now trained at Hastings, will be a strong opponent. He was second behind Gatcombe’s Pride when resuming in the Walker Handicap on the first day of the Wanganui Jockey Club’s meeting in August. Class mare, Eastern Joy, Chance for Gold, and the in-form Nitty Gritty may be the best of the others. The T.A.B. double apart, the feature race at Hastings is the Anthony G. Cavanagh Stakes, formerly the Gold Trail Stakes and the first in the series for the Wrightson Filly of the Year award. Miss Emma, as one of the best performed fillies last season, and Sweet Symphony, which won her first three races, before running second at Rotorua, head an even list. Also of real interest will be the last race on the programme, the Alexander Handicap. It is a class 3 sprint, but given the reasonable track conditions expected the field will be enhanced by a number of last term’s better two-year-olds, Arctic Wolf, Abit Matey, Mister Aythorpe and Squire Gray.