By "Tuli Chasm"
T looks very much as if the benison of the weather will be denied us for the opening day of the Spring Race Meeting this afternoon.
At the time of writing the prospect hangs precari-Puy in the balance—a heavy downpour points to rain and mud, a rift somewhere in the grey curtain seems to augur sunshine a light course. In any case, the past meetings have disclosed ithe irrefutable fact that punters have always in some inexplicable way managed to ferret out the winners It will require some pretty deep ferefting however when it comes to the races for the new Australian and hina pony griffins as I think it is Zimost impossible to tell a mudlarker By simply looking at an animal. Some the "savvy" ones claim that short ind straight pasterns are the ones to ok when the course is six inches under water and the going is really slushy, while another camp insists that it is the pony with the long and (loping pasterns that are winners in {he mud. This argument could go on Bion it the question of round, blong. big, small hoofs are brought to the debate.
My system of picking winners in the case of the griffins race is to play them according to their form on the dry and hope for the best. Some of them must surely be as good in the mud as on a bone dry course. Perhaps Jou ray have a formula of your m. If you have this is the pect to see him triumph over his two arebrivals. White Night and Frostylight, who should be among the first three at the finish. The 1941 Sub-
Griffins Trial Plate should see Scorpio and Dunhaung facing the barrier as favourites but I think it will be won by a less fancied pony in Island Ruler, Scorpio and Dunhuang should fill. the place positions.
If the going is soft we may see S.lver Fox plodding his way home ahead of the field in the ninth race with Fairy Starling and Columbus close on his heels. This is not such a cut and dry proposition for Silver Fox as it may seem, as there are other such reputable mudlarkers as Bagshot and Merrylight.
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