Bets on for Truer

Press, 1 December 1988, Page 36

Bets on for Truer

By JEFF SCOTT The Totalisator Agency Board is to accept betting on next Monday’s return clash of Our Maestro and Luxury Liner in the sAustl2o,ooo Max Truer Memorial at the Bankstown Paceway m Sydney.

Dick Tayler, the marketing manager for the Hamess Racing Conference, has successfully negotiated for Radio New Zealand to broadcast a delayed commentary of the race. "The Truer will be run at 11.40 p.m. (N.Z. time) and Radio New Zealand is unable to broadcast it live due to programme commitments. However it has agreed to replay the race in the midnight news and sports package,” said Mr Tayler. "New Zealanders bet a total of $145,599 on Friday’s Miracle Mile through the T.A.8., which was twice as much as the previous year,” Gaid Mr Tayler. Our Maestro and Luxury Liner fill the outside two barriers under the preferential-draw system of the Truer. Ten pacers have accepted for the Bankstown feature, with six pacers starting from the front

line (former Canterbury pacer Speedy Cheval is on the outside), and the remaining four on the second row. The race is run over 2540 m from a mobile dispatch. The field, in barrier draw order, is: Bluegrass Special, Nikalong Shadow, Wipe The World, Gay Adam, Kyalla Fling, Speedy Cheval, Thorate, Rowleyalla, Our Maestro and Luxury Liner. Rowleyaila, the 1:52.6 time-trialist, showed his Miracle Mile run was out of character by bouncing back to form at the Bankstown meeting last Monday. * * * Gypsy Vance’s win in the $65,000 Franklin Cup has again lifted champion sire, Vance Hanover, to the top in this season’s sires’ premiership. Last term’s premier sire had a lead of $15,812 on Mercedes after racing was completed last weekend.

Top trotting sire, Game Pride, has jumped from sixth spot to third by virtue of the D.B. Dominion Handicap success by his leading daughter, Landora’s Pride. Those sires to have left the winners of $lOO,OOO, or over, this term are: Vance Hanover $379,662, Mercedes $363,850, Game Pride $307,594, Noodlum $291,162, Lordship $279,576, Smooth Fella $209,866, Mark Lobell $163,630, Clever Innocence $159,165, Plat du Jour $132,590, Gaines Minbar $124,785, Sir Dalrae $108,221, Midshipman $106,160 and Surmo Hanover $100,705. Leading reinsman, Maurice McKendry, topped 50 wins for the season when he drove two winners at the Pukekohe on-course meeting at Alexandra Park last Thursday. McKendry had a lead of 11 over his arch-rival,

Tony Herlihy, going into last night’s Wellington meeting. The leading reinsmen (not including last night’s Wellington meeting) are: M. McKendry 50, A. Herlihy 39, D. Butcher 25, R. May 21, R. Cameron and J. Curtin 20, A. Butt and M. Purdon 19, P. Jones 17, M. de Filippi and J. Stormont 15, A. Beck 12. The leading trainers, Roy and Barry Purdon, again have a commanding break over Drury’s Peter Wolfenden, on this season’s trainers’ premiership. The leading trainers (not including last night’s Wellington meeting) are: R. and B. Purdon 28, P. Wolfenden 19, C. Hunter and G. Smith 17, J. Lischner 11, L. Driver, O. Purdon 10, I. Behrns, B. Saunders, M. Stormont, 9, G. Bond, J. Breed, J. and D. Butcher, J. Carmichael, R. Olliveri 8.