NEW ZEALAND METROPOLITAN TROTTING
CLUB WITHDRAWALS for all events on the First Night of the above Club’s Easter Meeting to be held on Wednesday, April 8, must be received by 12 noon on Monday, April 6, 1987. T. H. DA Vis; Secretary/Manager. Advt
LION BROWN RACING TIPS This week-end is the lull before The two year old fillies go could the Easter storm but the Cheviot. produce an upset for the treble but meeting is the end of the “grass” INNOCENT HEATHER is my pick to circuit with Methven form a strong beat PETITE at the draw but I’ll factor this week. have ITZ MAGIC and TACT STACEY Last Saturday I tipped you DREA- in and DEBBIES CHANCE has alMIN SCHEME in the first and you ready won on here. may have thought the only dreamer The mystery horses at Cheviot are around was yours truly when he in the first and the last. In the first didn’t pay a dividend. it’s a name sake of a famous Remember, though, that Davey cricketer and one which won’t be Butt was shoved so far back he must “all at sea” here. In the last it’s a have been getting anxious at the mastercard but it hasn’t anything to home turn that the trotters wouldn’t do with credit. be coming out of the birdcage for Going on his name he’ll be hard to the second before he got home. To keep quiet too. get fourth was a big run and I’m The course specialist UNCLE sticking with the ship this week, LOUIE could be at false each way Rosy Score being in there or not. odds in the seventh at Birchwood The last time SQUIBBLY DEE and HEIDIBY with Dowling up raced on his home track he was a should be in the money in the last I certainty beaten and even from the thought old OCEAN GUARD could be draw he has got to be the one to beat at a price in the open handicap and in the Aqua. He didn’t race quite as the mystery horse in the third is a' well as Akaroa but wasn’t the only gate which could attract a maiden one who found he liked better stuff pacer (work that one out!) than mud under the hooves. Good punting — and place a saver LITTLE RIVER is not a bad horse on STAR KING in the big one at and with the big three-year-old races Auckland tomorrow night. coming up you’d expect him to show something in the Pier which is the Trifecta race. STROLLALONG, FIRE CRACKER, SIR AVON and SUSAN KAY are the ones I’d line up behind him. There’s another three-year-old later in the day which looks a smart „ 1 .. i bet ' J?'"' His name is CON BRIO and if he takes the first leg of the treble they’ll ® < \ have to look at the Derby with him. w \ \ That means he’ll be labelled urgent V \ and his record on grass is hard to i \\ -beat. V i The big race looks open but il I WORLD OF FAME is going to get one any time so you can stick with him in some safety. That STEVEN JOHN just wants to be a racehorse and remember he’s won on this track before. LION BROWN MORE OF A BEER
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