The Sydney Morning Herald from Sydney, New South Wales, Australia • 69

The Sydney Morning Herald Saturday January 16 1993 69 PORT SOCCER Katholos returns to scene of war to battle his mates MICHAEL C0CKER1LL Rookies get chance for youth side Three newcomers defenders Aaron Holst and Zoran Bizimov-ski and striker Darren locca -will be given a chance next week to force their way into the national undcr-20 squad for the World Youth Championships to be held in Australia in March The three rookies have been called to a 25-man squad for a training camp in Melbourne From the camp Young Soc-ceroo coach Les Scheinfiug will select 18 players for the coming three-match series against South Korea 0 Sydney Olympic are poised to sell disgruntled striker Tim Bredbury to Malaysian club Sabah The club has asked $8000 for Bredbury who spent last year in Malaysia with Selangor 0 A planned two-match tour by the US national team in early May has been cancelled 0 Former Sydney Olympic coach Mick Hickman is likely to accompany Socceroo mentor Eddie Thomson to Europe for next World Cup training camp at Arnhem in Holland MICHAEL COCKERILL felt it was important to tell the public that not only did he Raskopoulos not want me in the side but he even banned me from training with the youth team Until then I really planned to In a delicious twist just over a week later Katholos will be returning to St George Stadium when the Eagles take on his old club with Raskopoulos still at the helm in national league match which will feature a State Government No promotion "Look a lot of the boys there are my mates and not expecting any he said if someone is told to kick me in the air then Til take it on the chin football and I be pulling out of any tackles Katholos in his new white and red strip has the capability to shore up the Eagles midfield at a crucial stage of the season Tomorrow night he will replace the injured Gabriel Mendez and seems set to become a fixture in the side over the last half of the season still a good player and he definitely can do a job for said Parramatta skipper Robert Wheatley The Eagles in fourth position will start favourites although Sydney Olympic under growing pressure after too many poor results and a limp display at home to Morwell Falcons last week will be motivated to silence their critics The striking partnership of Zlatko Arambasic and David Seal remains a danger to any team in the league The match of the round and indeed the season will take place at Middle Park tomorrow where Coca-Cola league leaders South Melbourne host second-placed Marconi-Fairfield Souths officials are discussing the possibility that the ground record of 1 5600 set in 1978 when Malcolm McDonald was guest for the home side may be broken The two most attractive teams in the country promise a feast of entertainment although the Fair-fielders have been weakened by the loss of three experienced players George Jolevki Jean Paul de Marigny and Tom McCulloch through injury In the only other Sydney-based match Sydney CSC will start hot favourites against lowly Preston at Edensor Park tonight The draw: TONIGHT: Sydney CSC Preston Croatian Sports Centre (6 pm): Brisbane United Adelaide City Perry Park (7 pm) TOMORROW: Sydney Olympic Parramatta Eagles St George Stadium (630 pm) South Melbourne Marconi-Fairfield Middle Park (6 pm) Melbourne CSC Heidelberg United Somers Street (6 pm) West Adelaide Newcastle Breakers Hindmarsh Stadium (8 pm) 0 A gift goal allowed Morwell to force a 1-1 draw with Wollongong City in last night's NSL match at Brandon Park Wollongong In a game played in humid conditions Wollongong led 1-0 and looked by far the more enterprising team but conceded a shock goal in the 73rd minute Left on the sidelines at Sydney Olympic during the first half of this season the frustration ate away at Katholos until the inevitable occurred a heated clash with former teammate Peter Ras-kopoulos who is now the coach There could only be one winner and last week Katholos left St George Stadium to join his fifth NSL club Parramatta Eagles and renew his relationship with coach Rale Rasic Typically however Katholos could not leave Sydney Olympic without letting Raskopoulos know how he felt claiming on the SBS show On the Ball last weekend that the rookie coach needed pull his finger stand by what I said because the reality of the said Katholos me I had a few more things to say but the boys at SBS told me to calm down on the move again 2 RACING Jack Attack in peak condition for Parramatta Cup Just Awesome trained at Rosehill was spelled after his Randwick trial victory and did not reappear until last Monday when he beat Various (engaged today) comfortably in a trial over 1030m at Rosehill Various has the advantage of race experience having finished ninth from a wide barrier to Danger in the Plate and third to Headstrong over 1100m at Rosehill last October He is better drawn at six than Just Awesome which has 10 Darbaas and To You -both unraced have ability and they could be in commission today RACE 3: Petrify which was resuming from a six-month spell overcame a wide run on the home turn to win from Our Chinook over 1000m at Gosford on December 31 Our Chinook also engaged here came out to finish a solid second after a wide run to Run over 1200m at Rosehill last Saturday That performance by Our Chinook confirmed the December 31 Gosford form Petrify has raced once at Rosehill for a fast-finishing win from his better fancied stable-mate Essay over this distance last April Essay went on to win at Canterbury thus highlighting ability Although five-year-old Jack Attack has not won at a distance beyond 1629m (at Doomben) punters should not hold that against him in the Parramatta Cup (2000m) at Rosehill today At his one and only attempt at longer than 1629m Jack Attack stayed 2000m strongly for third to two good horses Stradmore and Native Neptune in the Tattersalls Cup at Randwick a year ago Jack Attack has been sparingly raced in the meantime having had only seven starts in the past year The signs are there that he is stronger than ever This John Singleton-owned and John Nieholls-trained grey is bred to stay as his French-bred sire Cheraw was a sound stayer in France and the US winning against top company at distances up to 2450m Last start at Randwick on January 6 Jack Attack (Jim Cassidy) carried 59kg into third place behind Rouquin (55kg) and Upwards (54kg) in a 1600m Welter Handicap after finishing fast to win over 1400m at Randwick on Boxing Day He has only 535kg today with Larry Cassidy replacing his brother Jim who is riding Gold Apple in the Magic Million at the Gold Coast The track at Rosehill today will be hard and fast with the rail out 6nin ail the way The wide rail placement means horses near the lead will have an edge In short back-runners could be at a disadvantage except in cases where the pace is on all the way RACE 1: Clochan is an improving three-vear-old filly favourably drawn (barrier four) with the limit weight getting 45kg from the older better-performed Highpak (barrier 10) Clochan did a fine job at Rosehill last week to hold off the aboard Little Red Dragon She will come out running from barrier one and will be in front or just behind the pace to the turn RACE 6: Stylish strong finish to win first-up over 1200m at Randwick on December 19 showed he would be better placed at a longer distance Today this lanky Les Bridge-trained former Kiwi will be suited by the 300m longer journey Certainly he is big enough to make light of his weight increase from the 515kg he carried at Randwick to 545kg here Centrossi which will be at good odds has a definite chance his last- start sixth to Schwantz at Rosehill over this distance on January 2 being better than it looks in the form guides for he was three wide to the 600m then six deep on the turn His rider today Tim Phillips (who claims 3kg) rode Centrossi While Peter Katholos may have done the rounds of all the big Sydney clubs it has been his refreshing honesty which has always landed him in trouble rather than the talents in his size nine boots Katholos 31 remains one of the more influential midfielders in the national league an opinion shared by such respected coaches as Mick Hickman Raul Blanco and David Ratcliffe but one issue the former international finds hard to tolerate is being left out of the team In that sense he is a difficult customer agitating constantly for a recall when other players may be less demanding And yet this confidence perhaps even arrogance has helped to create a player whose ability on the ball can never be questioned me I'm not a he said I have a passion for the game I just have to WHISPERS heavily-backed Rochac to whom she conceded 35kg The previous week Highpak made easy work of winning a Rosehill welter with only half a kilo above the lower limit She is down in grade and up in weight Conversely Clochan is up in grade and down in the weights Clochan is by the successful stallion Haulpak from a good imported race mare in Solinus Love (Ire) which won eight races to 1600m in Victoria including the 1400m CUB Stakes at Fle-mington the day Kiwi won the 1983 Melbourne Cup I lean to Clochan to provide John Hawkes with his first metropolitan success since his recent employment as the Ingham trainer at the bountiful Crown Lodge stables When she won last week the filly sweated heavily in the hot weather yet scored impressively under 55kg The warm conditions did not stop her and neither will it worry Highpak who is accustomed to plenty of heat in her home State Western Australia RACE 2: Unraced Just Awesome displayed above-average speed winning at official Randwick barrier trials in September He strolled away from Swell Style which came out to finish second to Jetball in the Canon-bury Stakes MARTIN TALTY Richards was happy with his buys but the day after the sales finished the trainer regretted not having been able to secure a colt by A1 Hareb which he said was the best type there and which went for $40000 Richards was one of the underbidders for the A1 Hareb colt but not to be outdone was quickly BiLL WHITTAKER SELECTS RACE I Clochan 1 Highpak 2 Sometime Lucky 3 RACE 2: Just Awesome I Various 2 Darbaas 2 RACE 3: Petrify 1 Welsh Miner 2 Our Chinook 3 RACE 4: Keep Cool I Junction Star 2 lonarch's Time3 RACE Scottish Amour I Silent Queen 2 Spring Beauty 3 RACE 6: Stylish Syd I Centrossi 2 Steel Yarn 3 RACE 7: Jack Attack I Touson 2 Golden Step 3 RACE 8: Skilful Star 1 Princely Patch 2 Pumpernickel 3 BEST BET: Scottish Amour Peter Katholos rm CRICKET Rescued Tassie back in control HOBART: An unbeaten 117-run stand by Danny Buckingham and Shaun Young put Tasmania in charge in the Sheffield Shield match against South Australia at the Bellerive Oval yesterday At stumps on the first day Tasmania recovered to be 5-254 after being put into bat and facing trouble at 2-5 after just three overs Buckingham remained unbeaten on 81 while Young played a gutsy supporting role with 42 Speedster Damion Reeves was South Australia's best bowler with 3-45 while Tim May finished the day with 2-59 off a wearying 31 overs Tasmanian opener Dene Hills and Ricky Ponting set about consolidating the innings after the early collapse and their determination was rewarded with a gutsy 1 1 2-run partnership Ponting went on to make a well-crafted 50 before he was dismissed and Hills eventually fell for 55 with the score at 4-125 Tasmanian skipper Rod Tucker spent 18 minutes at the crease but managed only two before he was bowled by spinner May Buckingham and Young then joined forces to carry Tasmania through to stumps SCOREBOARD SHEFFIELD SHIELD TASMANIA SOUTH AUSTRALIA At Bellerive Oval Hobart TASMANIA 1st Innings HILLS Sleep May 55 COURTNEY Reeves 4 COX Neilsen Reeves 0 PONTING Neilsen Reeves 50 BUCKINGHAM notout 81 TUCKER May 2 YOUNG not out -42 Sundries (3B 9LB 4NB) 20 Five wickets for 254 Fall: 5 5 117 125 137 BOWLING: Reeves 19-8-45-3 Wigney 20-3-59-0 (3nb) Lewis 5-1-18-0 Scuderi 12-2-38-0 May 31-1 1-59-2 (Inb) Sleep 11-3-23-0 Batting time: 362 mins Overs: 98 Crowd 316 0 In New Delhi captain Graham Gooch has issued a stern warning in a bid to get troubled tour of India back on course The team for Monday's opening one-day international could wear a different look with Gooch threatening to ring some changes Gooch has taken personally the crushing nine-wicket defeat by the President's XI in Delhi on Wednesday He is said to be fed up with some players apparently feeling more concerned about the civil unrest than ensuring a professional performance is a very proud man but he was not very proud team manager Keith Fletcher said second-rate performance is not good enough been a strange sort of tour so far In a way I feel we have really started yet the players have got to get their minds back on the cricket The uncertainty of the past week or so has played on their minds but they must forget about everything that has been happening should be professional enough so that when they go out on the field to play for England they can put other things out of their Veteran spinner John Emburey said: are now wide open for the one-day international The captain came out with a set pattern for these games but had to change Sometimes good in a way to be beaten early in a tour last few days have been an eye-opener for a few people They have found this tour is much harder than they Breeders prepare for a tough year He is a lightly-raced gelding from the Crown Lodge stables a horse which could develop into a good welter-class galloper Welsh Miner and Our Chinook are strong prospects Welsh Miner missed the start and had no luck from a wide barrier two weeks ago at Rosehill while Our Chinook ran what was probably the best race of his career finishing second to Run over 1200m here last week He was three and four wide doing it tough all the way from barrier 14 RACE 4: Imposing Bull placed in the Champagne Stakes and Fernhill Handicap at Randwick last autumn is the class runner here but against that he is first-up from a seven-month spell and has the disadvantage of the outside alley in this field of 12 He faces a difficult job Lightly-raced Keep Cool recently transferred from the country to the Randwick stables of John Morish showed his worth by winning stylishly if narrowly over 1200m in a fast lm 95s at Rosehill on January 2 Keep Cool which had won at his previous two starts at Gilgan-dra and Bathurst is a well bred three-year-old by the high-class French importation Kenmare He is a definite improver very well placed today from barrier three over 1350m with the MARTIN TALTY as one of his premier picks for this Golden Slipper in April Olsen rode Gold Brose at his only start when the two-year-old scored a boilover win in the $100000 Silver Slipper Stakes at Rosehill last spring and was pleased with the way he went in last barrier trials at Randwick To make matters even more confusing Shane Dye a master at selecting Golden Slipper contenders has also shown a liking for Tiba Tiba along with Gold Archer which he rides in the Magic Millions today After Gold brilliant win over Express in the Ballina Bracelet last start Dye said the colt might be too inexperienced for the Magic Millions but better suited to a Golden Slipper But Olsen appears to have the first choice of either Tiba Tiba or Gold Brose the former having first crack at his services today while the latter has the advantage of having already qualified for the Golden Slipper the one in But Tiba Tiba too has had an interesting road to the Magic Millions Macpherson also describing him as the pick of yearlings in last sales but he also was the underbidder on the colt Tiba Tiba was knocked down to Singapore trainer Malcolm Thwaites who Macpherson immediately sought out to see if he could train the yearling and fortunately for him the new owner accepted Three riders jockey for position and before started Larry Cassidy winning skilled western districts jockey Bill Aspros to guide him Junction Star having his first Rosehill start is in top form He is a fit horse certain to run the 1350m right out RACE 5: Scottish Amour chased home the classy Rock Review at her first race start at this track on January 2 That was a fine effort as Rock Review ran the fastest last 800m of the day in 4560s and also the fastest last 600m in 3454s That was brilliant finishing speed and Scottish Amour stuck to her guns leading for home then resisting Rock challenge until well inside the last 200m Later it was revealed Scottish Amour shifted her off fore-plate in the run As that was her first start it is probable this Bruce McHugh-bred and part-owned filly by Whiskey Road will strip a fitter and better horse today So with Dittman Dye and Olsen interested in riding Tiba Tiba Gold Brose Just Awesome and Adjourned it seems the jockeying for mounts leading up to the Golden Slipper may be even more competitive than the jockeying on the course One hoop involved in the Magic Millions today who has no such worries is Cairns-based Alison Cooper who becomes the first woman to ride in the event Cooper continues her association with Quick Response the juvenile which has resurrected her career Cooper 29 rode quarter horses in Nambour before serving a thoroughbred apprenticeship in Toowoomba and then moving back to Cairns Three years ago her riding days seemed to be over when she broke her leg in a fall and had it in plaster for 12 months Now Quick Response has given her career new life Cooper has been wasting to ride the colt at his correct weight of 55kg but she said yesterday it was worth it and that million-dollar opportunities were few and far between a million Thwaites Macpherson and Richards the three of them could not be more different but today they chase the same goal Thwaites employs two fulltime farriers in his stable in Singapore plus a permanent vet No wonder he defeated Macpherson in the chase for Tiba Tiba while Richards was there in the hope of finding a few nice yearlings but even more important finding buyers for them after he had secured them last month at Randwick into second place in a class 5 race at Canberra last May at his one and only ride on the gelding Centrossi and Steel Yarn (better drawn at eight rather than the 17 he had at Rosehill last time) should both be handy all the way RACE 8: Skilful Star an impressive winner in two runs from a spell at Randwick and Rosehill will be at short odds to win again He has developed speed out of the barrier and he is well in on the limit weight Skilful Star which ran third to Kinjite in the 1991 Up And Coming Stakes at Warwick Farm and second to Enjoy Dancing in the Spring Stakes at Broadmea-dow as a three-year-old has always possessed plenty of ability Princely Patch and Pumpernickel both going well look chances for the trifecta with Skilful Star MARTIN TALTY $220000 it decided to take her home to continue the female line South African participation was not nearly as dominant yesterday as it was last Easter and this provided the biggest blow to the prices Robin Bruss of South Africa's leading bloodstock agency Delta Bloodstock said a recent change in import criteria had curbed the ability to buy but it was willing to take what it could after the magnificent results from last purchases now racing in South Africa hard going very Bruss said after all the eligible horses with good legs but in particular fillies with strong pedigrees recent change will harm South African racing but the quality of the fillies we will be buying will improve the genetic quality of the stud book South African thoroughbred breeders seem to think colts improve the book because as soon as they arrive most are gelded but I disagree with that if they are gelded they are still quality racehorses and if any South African horses can beat them then it can only help our stud Bruss signed a receipt of $160000 for a Kenmare filly out of Emancipation Former Prime Minister Bob Hawke who was approached by the Commercial Thoroughbred Breeders' Association to head a delegation to Asia late last year became a buyer yesterday Hawke teamed up with Sydney-based Hong Kong businessman Sunny Yam to pay $16000 for a colt by former Cox Plate winner Our Poetic Prince SOUTHPORT: Breeders throughout Australasia are bracing themselves for one of the ioughest years on record after lacklustre results at yesterday's inaugural At The at Sanctuary Cove When selling ended an aggregate of $43 million was realised at an average of $35426 for the 208 horses that went through the ring However the reality of the market was shown after 40 per cent of the horses set for sale failed to fetch their reserve price The downturn at last Summer Sale at William Inglis hinted at what breeders could have expected Yesterday brought no relief and they now look toward premier yearling sale at Inglis in April However Dalgety Bloodstock general manager Tony Fleiter was happy with the results yesterday and was confident the sale would continue for some time John Messara head of Arrow-field Stud which consigned 49 yearlings to sale said it was a tough market and could be expected to remain so for the rest of the year no local market and overseas spending has been Messara said The lesson to come from the sale is that quality yearlings will sell well but buyers are not prepared to accept those with any faults A strong middle market is usually the basis for a successful sale but this market was slightly weak yesterday Newhaven Park Stud breeders of champion two-year-old filly Burst bred the top-priced lot yesterday and bought it back for $220000 a filly by Marauding out of grand producer Joy And Fun Newhaven said it would have sold the filly for $250000 but when bidding stopped at SOUTHPORT: Champion jockey Mick Dittman will have an interest in juvenile races in two States today apart from his commitment to Brandywine Bay in the $1 million Magic Millions Classic 1200m on the Gold Coast Dittman will monitor the performance of boom colt Just Awesome at Rosehill and has also been impressed with the certain favourite for the Magic Millions Tiba Tiba As well he has first option on Adjourned trained by Brian Mayfield-Smith the brilliant winner of a Randwick barrier trial last Friday But it is Tiba Tiba that Dittman will be able to view first-hand and with the jockey Larry Olsen still uncertain of his autumn commitments Dittman will be waiting anxiously Olsen has compared Tiba Tiba to Quick Score the colt who carried him to third place in the 1990 Magic Millions and he will be looking for compensation today But Olsen an experienced big-race rider already collecting trophies for a Melbourne Cup and Golden Slipper still has the Frank Lewis-trained Gold Brose back in the action when he bought the very next lot a filly by Arrow-field Prego sire of 1989 Magic Millions winner Malibu Magic Today the moment of truth comes for those two juveniles when the AI Hareb yearling now racing as the Ian Macpherson-trained Tiba Tiba takes on Prego filly Express in the $1 million Magic Millions Classic 1200m at Southport Mick Dittman keeping his eyes open over to see which buy is SOUTHPORT: Melbourne trainer Steve Richards will know just after 340 pm today (440 pm summer time) whether he has reason to regret his good judgment or admit to erring in his yearling selection Twelve months ago to the day Richards the former trainer for the lucrative Contract Racing Syndicate in Melbourne attended the Magic Millions sales and without a buyer gambled on purchasing three yearlings.