My Arctic Wolf resumes today

Press, 27 June 1987, Page 32

My Arctic Wolf resumes today

GLENN DAVIS,

of AAP (through NZPA) Brisbane

The New Zealand Trainer, Garth Ivil, is considering setting talented sprinter My Arctic Wolf for the W.S. Cox Plate (2040 m at Moonee Valley on October 24. First though, he resumes in today’s SNZ4B,OOO Healy Stakes at Eagle Farm.

• Ivil is confident the three-year-old Mussorgsky colt can measure up to a strong middle distance in the spring. But any firm decision won’t be made until after My Arctic Wolf contests the sAust23o,ooo Rothman’s 100,000 (1350 m at Doomben a week from today. My Arctic Wolf has won up to a mile at Riccarton in New Zealand and has given Ivil every indication he will handle the extra distance. New Zealand jockey, David Walsh, who will ride My Arctic Wolf in the Healy Stakes (1200 m today will be given first refusal in the Cox Plate. Injury-plagued My Arctic Wolf has made a steady recovery from . severe concussion as a result of a float mishap from Brisbane to the Gold Coast a fortnight ago. X-rays were taken of

the- colt’s skull but no serious damage was found.

"He’s not quite back to his best but he needs a run before the Rothman’s,” Ivil said. My Arctic Wolf is currently a 10-1 chance in the Rothman’s 100,000. Ivil rates tough Sydney sprinter New Atlantis as the main danger in the Healy Stakes. But like My Arctic Wolf, the Neville Begg-trained New Atlantis will also be back from injury to contest the Healy.

Stable foreman Graham Begg said New Atlantis had recovered after pulling up sore when unplaced in the Elders Handicap (1400 m at Eagle Farm on June 6.

New Atlantis copped the worst of interference when Gold Coast sprinter Rendoo crashed at the 600 m mark in the Elders.

A stay of proceedings will allow jockey Greg Hall to ride Canny Lass in the.Healy and Cimarra in the sAustso,ooo Castlemaine Gold Cup (2236 m Hall was suspended un-

til July 9 on a careless riding charge at Eagle Farm on Wednesday and will have his appeal heard by the Queensland Turf Club committee early next week. Hall replaces Peter

Cook, who has elected to ride stablemate Dinky Flyer in the Castlemaine. Cimarra was a brilliant five-lengths winner for Cook over 2200 m at Eagle Farm on a “dead” track on June 6 and has worked

sensationally this week.

Hall, who has never ridden Cimarra, will study video replays of the mare’s recent Brisbane performances before, the Castlemaine.