Victorian pacers draw badly

Press, 24 February 1987, Page 31

Victorian pacers draw badly

By

G. K. YULE

The Victorian horses, Bag Limit, Alpine Fella and Lightning Blue, fared badly in the barrier draw for the first set of heats of the Lion Brown InterDominion Championship series, which will begin at Addington Raceway on Saturday.

All of them will have to start from the second line, as will Gay Ebony and My Trinket, which will contest the heats of the trotters’ section.

Alpine Fella has drawn No. 16, the extreme outside of the second line, in his heat in which he will be opposed by the current New Zealand champion Master Mood, which has drawn No. 11, but will start from the outside of the front line so long as none of the emergencies re-enter the field.

The Sydney horse, Paleface Bubble, has drawn No. 7, while the Perth visitor, Prince of Princes, will start from No. 4 in this heat.

Bag Limit will be opposed by another Victorian in Quite Famous, which has drawn No. 6 in the second heat, with Sunset Candios, from Queensland, awkwardly drawn at No. 11.

The Television New Zealand Mile winner, Cinimod Junior, has drawn well at No. 3, with Frangelico inside him at No. 2. Lightning Blue, which reverts to his original naming in New Zealand

with the prefix, “My,” being dropped, has drawn No. 14 in the final pacing heat, one inside Luxury Liner, the top-ranked North Island pacer in the series. •

The lightly-framed Paia Royal, from Victoria, comes in at No. 4 in this heat, with Town Royal, from Queensland, at No. 6.

The meeting between Tussle and Game Ebony in the first heat of the trotters’ section will be among the features of the night

Game Ebony, a halfbrother to Downsouth Clare, the winner of more than $lOO,OOO in stakes, is one of the two top trotters in Victoria. His trainerdriver, Dick Lee, is not too concerned about the standing start in Saturday’s heats. “He mightn’t be the fastest out of the barrier, but if he has a bit of room to move about in, he’s usually all right," he said. Game Ebony and the other 12 visiting horses travelled well and settled in splendidly to their new surroundings. A number of them are expected to compete at barrier trials to be held at Addington tomorrow.

The Metropolitan Club will run the T.A.B. double on the second and third heats of the Pacing Championship. The T.A.B. treble will be run on races four, five and six, with the seventh

event being the T.A.B. trifecta race. An on-course treble will be run on races eight, nine and 10. A jackpot, starting with a pool of $lB4, will be run on races five to nine inclusive. ' Acceptances:— Race 1 6.10 Burkes Caterers Mile, $5500; C 3; mobile; one mile Prime Minister 1 . it Rich and Dark 2 It Margrave 3 it Timely Rule 4 It Gipsy Colonel 5 it Lordado 6 it Flashdance 7 it Kotare Pewter 8 It Special Miss 9 It Sunset Panorama 10 . . . It El Rivere 11 It Buster Boy 12 it Medicine Man 13 .... . It Boyden Royale 14 It Emergencies: Sunset Panorama, Timely Rule, Prime Minister, Boyden Royale. Race 2 6.40 Sid Wilson Standardbred Agency Handicap $5500; C 3; trotters; 3200 m. Game Dryden I It Brother’s Pride 2 it Milford Ace 3 It Highwood 4 .... ■ it Wychingham Knight 1. . 10 Four Leaf 2 10 Delacouri 3 10 Flameaway 4 10 Romerez 5 10 Lucky Yank 6 10 Light Bay 1 20 Fidelis 2 20

Roman Guy 3 20 Pitcher 4 20 Yankee Loch UR 1... . 20 Joe Junior UR 2 20 Emergency: Four Leaf. Race 3 7.10 Harness World Bloodstock Trial, $7500; two-year-olds; 2000 m. Bachilton 1 It Comedian 2 It Weltimed 3: it Kotare Jac 4 . . It Canasta King 5 It Hazlett 6 It Camforth 7 It Quick Away 8 It Lady Poplar 9 It Tuapeka Knight 1 10 Joker Man 2 10 Starship 3 10 Meadow King 4 10 Armbro Khan 5 10 Race 4 7.45 Pacing Championship Heat One $27,500; mobile; 2000 m. Gaelic Skipper 1 it Sir Alba 2 it Placid Victor 3 It Prince of Princes (WA) 4 It Viewfield Prince 5 . . . . It Guard of Honour 6. . . . it Paleface Bubble (NSW) 7 it Trident Bit Saucy Star 9 . it Diamond Moose 10 ... . It Master Mood 11 It Borana 12 It Greg Patron 13 it Reggie’s Mate 14 it Michele Bromac 15. . . . It Alpine Fella (Vic.) 16 . . it Emergencies: Saucy Star, Greg Patron, Guard of Honour. Race 5 8.15 Trotting Championship Heat One $17,500; 2600 m. Firm Offer 1 it

Globe Pride 2 It Jenner 3 It Blackwood Mac (Vic.) 4. It Borrowed Time 5 .... . it Troppo 6 It Linda Ellen 7 It Tussle 8 H Admiral Soanai 9 It Laredo 10 . It Game Command 11. . . . It Classic Dee 12 it Game Ebony (Vic.) 13. . It Westham 14 . It Front Up 15 It Yankee Loch UR It Emergencies: Yankee Loch, Linda Ellen. Race 6 8.45 Pacing Championship Heat Two $27,500; mobile; 2000 m. Dreaming Neebray 1. . . it Frangelico 2 . . It Cinimod Junior 3 it Guard of Honour 4... . It Aran Blaze 5 It Quite Famous (Vic.) 6.. It Saucy Star 7 it Freightman 8 It Our Mana 9 It Skipper Dale 10 it Sunset Candios (Q) 11. . it Rolls Hanover 12 It Greg Patron 13 - It Malaz 14 It Bag Limit (Vic.) 15. . . . it French Lord 16 it Emergencies: Saucy Star, Greg Patron, Guard of Honour. Race 7 9.15 Trotting Championship Heat Two $17,500; 2600 m. 'Simon Katz 1 It First Grade 2 it Wedgewood 3 it Jamie Higgins 4 It Landora’s Pride 5 it Great Life 6 It Empire Lobell 7 It Spangled Pride 8 It Melvander 9 it Jimmy Scott 10 It My Trinket (Vic.) 11. . . it Eastern Romance (Vic.) 12 it Shylock 13 It Linda Ellen 14 It Tobago 15 It Yankee Loch UR it Emergencies: Yankee Loch, Linda Ellen.

Race 8 9.45 Pacing Championship Heat Three ■ $27,500; mobile; 2000 m Lord Louie 1. It Andronicus 2 It Guard of Honour 3. . . . It Paia Royal (Vic.) 4. . . . It Laser Lad 5. It Town Royal (Q) 6 .... It Horizon 7 . . It Skipper Vantar 8 .... . It Captain Cavalla 9 .... . It Premiership 10 It Metal Mickey 11 It Greg Patron 12 It Spry Joker 13 it Lightning Blue (Vic.) 14- it Luxury Liner 15 It Saucy Star 16 It Emergencies: Saucy Star, Greg Patron, Guard of Honour. Race 9 10.15 Max Bowden Racing and Breeding Stables Handicap $6200; C 4; 2600 m Star King 1 It Sun Lover 2 it Maddie 3 It Tattle 4 It Kerry Counsel 5 It Floyd 6 It Final Offer 7 It Nardin’s Belle 1 10 Whoopee 2 ... 10 Rotary Motor 3 10 Talisman 4 10 Mystery Light 5 10 Lord Paul 6 10 Borderline 7 10 Missed Again 1 20 Sure He Can 2 20 Emergency: Kerry Counsel. Race 10 10.45 National Bloodstock Trial $7500; three-year-olds; mobile; 2600 m. Rostriever Hanover 1 . . It Sahara 2 It Carcassonne 3 It Cathedral 4 It Innocent Guy 5 It Coma Berenices 6 It Megatrend 7 It Shapiro 8 It Springsteel 9 It Netherton Abbe 10 ... . It Armanat 11 it That’s That 12 It Emcee 13 It Alvarez 14 It

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