GARRY MADE OPEN GRADE AT LEVIN

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22654, 3 June 1948, Page 8

GARRY MADE OPEN GRADE AT LEVIN

(Herald Special Service.)

5 The thrcc-year-olcl gelding Garry, / having his first race in the open class. made the grade among a fair held ot £ sprinters at Levin on Saturday. High Order, tire only favourite to score during the day, succeeded in the , resid- /, ent's Handicap. Many of the runners / at Levin will be going on to Wanganui \ to compete on Saturday and Monday > next. £ Justified Confidence | High Order, favourite in both_ the / | win and place pools and winner oi the / President's Handicap at Levin. was /.■ recently beaten at Otaki by a very / small margin so that it was not suiK prising to find him so well backed. > espeeiallv as W. .1. Broughton was the / pilot. This five-year-old has always / raced best on easy tracks. . / Second Seal has ;un some very la* l ' I races for three minor placings in the t \ last few months so it was not surpns- _ j ing to find him in the runner-up place f j tu High Order, but as he has not won |! an open handicap 9-9 in tiie betting g! was about Ids right position m Ue | 1 market. . ~, I i The Hastings-owned and trained i re- ■! ccdoncv, who was third, was expected 1 i to give a good account . of. himself. He j may have been in need of a race and ; next lime may do better. I Hormuz again let his supper! eis j ! down, while Sparkling Lady and She- | i i’wvn. first and second a week earlier i 1 in 'the Foxton Cup. this time were I: not equal to gaining a place. Anothci j that did not perform quite .ns well as piedicted was the Hastings-owned Ballinagh who, however, should not oe ; discarded for that I allure. ! Minor Place Again ! rhe Wellington-owned Deprive is ■ having a tough trot of minor placings. i After "Garry beat him in the Stewards I Handicap on Saturday he weighed-in for a place for (he o'Jg.lli. time this season. A win for him again—he has won twice earlier this season —would I be a just reward of consistency. I Garry when a two-year-old. gave | promise of developing class. In his first I outing this season he ran third. He then was unplaced six times in a row but seems now' to have recovered I earlier form and has been twice suc- ! cessful in the last few weeks. He is by ! Broiefort from Miss Boyce, by tne ' New Zealand-bred Croupier from Miss ; Maid by Benzonian from Aloha, who i traces back to Angola, a half-sistei to S the famous Ovine. Garry is bred on tac right lines and may yet produce the form once predicted for him. As a yearling his present owner. Mr. b. Newlands, of Wellington, gave 209 guineas for this chestnut. The Hastings three-year-old. General Victory, was "scratched and leaves this week for Auckland, His stable companion. Battle Survey, having his first race since the November Feilding meeting. showed speed at Levin, but was in need of a race. He races next at Wanganui but possibly will require a further public pipe-opener to bring him to concert pitch. Bonnie Fair, reported to be on the eve of being spelled, was third. Full o Fun was expected to go very close to winning, but (his Joviality filly was not equal to gaining a place. | Jumpers Not Strong Class

The jumpers in the two events at Levin were not of strong class although they may develop. In the hurdles First •Act won from the outsider, Sergeant Jack who was having his first hurdle race.' Royal Victor, third, was also a novice in this department. Ganges, the favourite, was a big disappointment. The winner had previously been in the money in the last month. First Act is a six-year-old by Ringmaster, sire ot the steeplechase winner at Grecnmcadows on the same afternoon, from Missal, by Limond from the imported Mirabelle II- . , Vernon won his first race when leading the field home in the Levin Hack and Hunters' Steeplechase. He had been in the money on a few' occasions between the flags. At WoodviLe he came from a long way back to run second to Vassilikos. He is trained by Allen McDonald, who was an accomplished steeplechase rider. Vernon is bv Amaranthus from Evasion. Second to him w'as the Lord Qucx gelding, Captain Jesse, with Incident, another r'et of Lord Quex. third. Incident is gaining the required confidence, and may later win an important jumping o\ ent.