LION BROWN RACING TIPS When they say the Methven races LIGHT tomorrow. Mystery Light can be full of surprises they are not looks to be coming back to her best wron g. three-year-old form, which was as I’ve been there when it was twenty good as any here have produced. A degrees after the first race and snow trainer of a different code will be fell before the last and I’ve been watching SKIPPER LOGAN in the there when someone got their num- second leg of the treble. Peter bers confused and ran the fifth race Williams, having seen colleague Jim after the tenth. Lalor pop up among the winning It must be the closest thing to an owners in the trotting game at Irish racecourse this side of the Addington the other night, would Equator but the track is usually nice dearly love to join him but Skipper and green so I suppose that is no Logan seems to have spend too long surprise. in the company of gallopers to It is the Irish turn to the formbook remember to do the right .thing early which can put you off betting there on in his races. but the fields seem longer on form He’s a heartbreak horse but if he’s than usual for this meeting. ever going to pull one off it will be One of the most confusing is the on a big grass track like this. first, which is also the trifecta, so A couple of mystery horses at you won’t have long to lie in bed Methven worth a rough dollar are a studying the form. trend which has a teenage draw in I have to go with BEAUDIENE the third and a good mate of yours BOLTA even though he seems to in the fourth. have been busy 'lately. I’ll anchor ONOS PRIDE and KINNAIRDS ' him and spend twenty bucks lining look two useful prospects at Wairio up five behind him which will be where a young tree could give you SKIPPER JOHN, PRINZ, MOOLOO- the elbow in the first leg of the LABA, SUBMISSIVE and, somewhat treble and KADE looks due at reluctantly after his effort on the Beaumont with RUFUS DAWES the grass at Waikouaiti, UNCLE upset in the sprint. JASPER. There are another three at least that could slot in there and if there’s a scratching SATANIC would be the first emergency. PRIMULA appeals to me in the maiden trot, not the sort of race I usually care much for. She’s a >■' battler but most of her tribe are that £ \ L ■ \ much better on the grass, where ® , stamina counts more. w, ’ v \ \ FALSE IMAGE looks the bet of the \ \ day in the fourth, MYSTIC WONDER A, 1 \ \ should make an overdue exit from s&X i i the duffer class in the fifth and I’m aIJ going to give KERRY COUNSEL one i last chance, in the big race. He was shuffled about more than a bower in a poker pack last week. Derek Jones has been shooting a line up Picton way recently but could get a haul off MYSTERY LION BROWN , MORE OF A BEER
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