Southern Candidates In Adams Memorial

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27078, 12 May 1949, Page 5

Southern Candidates In Adams Memorial

South Island stables are strongly represented in the Adams Memorial Handicap at Auckland on Saturday, and it will occasion no surprise if the greater portion of the stake is brought south. V. Leeming has a more than useful candidate In Lyceum, who went 4min 22sec from a 4min 36sec mark to win the Liverpool Handicap at the Metropolitan meeting last month from Despatch, Systematic and Silent Knight, from each of whom he received 12 yards. He will meet Silent Knight on the same terms on Saturday, Silent Knight having been successful ut the Hutt Park meeting. Silent. Knight recently went into G. S. Smith’s stable Of the other South Island candidates, Bull’s Eye will no doubt be supported In the hope that he will travel smoothly all the way. but in all probability Lyceum and Silent Knight will dispute favouritism. Jottings The Gore-owned pacer, Melvlan', is now in L. C. Frost’s team at New Brighton. Foreign Lady will be In keen demand for the Hobson Handicap at Auckland on Saturday. Prospect for Auckland Single Task will only need to reproduce her form on the first day of the Forbury Park meeting to be prominent at the finish of the Stewards’ Handicap at Auckland. Good Relations Lochinvar, who won. at the Waimate Racing Club’s meeting last month, is a Four-year-old by U. Scott from.Roydon’s' Pride, the dam of certissimus and Desmond's Pride. Lochinvar favours the pacing gait and D. Teahen should win good races with him. Oamaru Pacer Battle On should be among the hardest horses to beat in the Papakura Handicap at Auckland on Saturday. He set a merry clip for most of the journey in the principal event on the second day of the Forbury Park meeting. Nicely Placed

Since going into J. M. Bain’s stable at Oamaru, Coliseum has scored two wins and a second. At the Hutt Park meeting in March he won the Carterton Handicap, of two miles, in 4min 29 l-ssec from a 4min 48sec mark, and later in the day he was successful in a division of the Hutt Handicap, of one mile and a-quarter, in which he gave away 36 yards. The Dillon Hall gelding looks nicely placed on the limit in the Cornwall Handicap at Auckland.