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GLOBE MEN SELECT EARL
DOUBLES
% MCK m i J W r R
My early double is FLASH
FOX (Caulfield Cup) with
either WODALL/1 or CROff
IS in the second leg.
I've a pretty high opinion of
lash Fox, who is nicely in with
nly 7.9.
He will be a
,
five-year-
.
ld
at
Caulfield
Cap
ime — that's the
ideal
age — and has the
necssarv
pace and
stamina
o run "out the mile and
' a Didn't Mr George Davis.
VA T C handicapper. say in
' mv Racing Round-up, two
?' eefes ago. that a rising
four-year-old at declara-
"on of weights with 8.0 is
lways hard to beat m the
Caulfield Well, Flash .Cup? Fox is rising
five with 21 lb. less
than weight for age'.
He is bred to stay, being
b.v Hellespont—Racefox.
Racefox was the dam of
the game but unlucky little
Fresh Bov. who finished
third in the Caulfield Cup
and second in the Melourne
Cup in 1947.
Flash Fox greatly, impressed
with his form over
iie
Christmas period when
th
l ' e e races, all of
diem in good style,
The longest distance was
0
lurlongs but he was
oint; great guns at the end
f each win
Mr E. A. Underwood,
VRC vice-chairman and
Australia's most powerful
owner,
is
sitting
pretty
with
his
two
champions,
Cromis and
Wodalla.
Cromis,
Australia's
best
horse, has 9.2 and
9.1 respectively.
while
Wodalla,
last
year's Melbourne
Cup
winner, has 9.0 in both.
Cromis's
weight
represents
1
lb.
more
than
weight-for-age in the
Melbourne
Cup.
while
Wodalla's
9.0 is 5 lbs. under the
scale!
Last Spring, Cromis
finished
second
in the
Caulfield
Guineas and the Victoria
Derby
when
only
a
shadow of his real self.
During
the Autumn
ne
proved himself bv
winning
the
St.
George
Stakes
(w.f.a).
Queen
Elizabeth
Stakes 'w.f.a.) and the
St.I
Leger Stakes (set weights'..]
In those three
races
he!
met
and
beat
the
be-:t!
horses in the land.
j
' Don't forget he's proved
that
he can
splint
and
stay.
In
fact, he
looks
the
ideal Cup horse providing
he
trains on, and
as
he
is strong legged and clean
winded, there is no reason
why he shouldn't.
Bg Hurray Wmlsh
If ever a horse has been
given a chance to win the ftfl
bourne Cup for the second
year in succession it
Wodalla.
He won last year as a four-year-ol$
with 8.4 and has only 9.0 this year.
Mr Underwood's other
Melbourne Cup representative,
Cromis, was
the outstanding threeyear-old
this season.
He has been given 1 lb.
more than Wodalla.
So this owner has a very
strong hand for the second
leg. No doubt if Wodalla
shows some form
when he resumes racing
he will be shot to the head
of all Melbourne Cup
lists.
A "comeback" by Wodalla
would fit in admirably with
Mr Underwood's plans, for
he is keen on Cromis contestiup
weight-for-age
races only this coming
sprine
New Zealanders have a
fine
record
in
disr.auJ
races
in
Australia.
Thef
have
been
more
or
leJ
dominating
the "big ta»ei
scene here in recent veaij
I'm taking a risk in gjl
ing for the New Zeabtidei
Gendarme as an earlv pica
for tht Caulfield Cup. M
never
seen
him. but lie!
be a
five-year-old
when tit
race comes around, and had
grand
form
in
the
Dami
inion.
In fact, lii c New Zealand!
form makes him a "tailoreji
to measure
Caulfield C-vf
proposition.
Gendarme
is the
pact!
type of stayer—and it's liij
sort that win three out
each
four
Caulfield
Cure!
e can
carry weight, atiil
is a weight-for-age wiimcij
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