A BIG HELD.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 208, 3 September 1938, Page 20

A BIG HELD.

fifty-six engaged.

NORTH ISLAND HAS MOST.

5-YEAR-OLDS PREDOMINATE.

(By Telegraph.— Special to "Star.") CHHISTt HURCH. this day. rile Now Zealand Cup nominations, "liirli <!o*o'l last night, total 30. or one more than wore received last year, and • lie best dtaycm have been drawn from ill parts o; the Dominion. file Noilli I-!,in I lias coiiti iliuted 31 and ot tli>' J.i in,in the Soulll Island 14 ■'jc troin Uiccarton. -C 1.,, most notal.lo absentee tit,m the list is Wild Chase, run-ner-up in Cerne Alibas last year, btil his oinis-imi 11i>I not i-oine as a sin prise ,it. In> has not lir'-n Inn; in work ;i|'|.-". his -pell. His mviii-i . Sn Charles Clifford, on this oic.isiini w i.I have Treneli l*"n.'lit to fly nil. Of l.i-t \ .-in "s li.-M of 17 <,111 > liv,. have '■••eri nominated a-iin. Tin y an- Cerne \lih."- iI hp ui'imii. Arifi-iitic, (,>uet n >•! >"11(!. I. i«,-iil» ■ •.; ..ml lioniiiri ali'j. Two tli.* live. ( i" in' .M.lia- and t>* '-iin"j. aif in Ausliilii. sii 111<-\ may be naidfd in tin* iiicanl iiiir a« unlike!;, -'artevs. Tli're of till' In n si's cnteied ale ni.ie •'Mrs "Id. the vrt-r.ins lieiu-.-Wnll-_rt<m• 11 ;i:i'l M ide Mitne\". Sown ill 'lie ii-! air 1J .-re seven and ' e -'v. Five-year-old* have the biggest n-'ii •v n! 'tion. 17. while four-year-olds •"imVie- s veii. It w not often that tliree-"ir-'ilds start in the Cup and there are ily t\vi« engaged. They are thn Beau I'ere enlt. lia; Son. winner of the Wel-'-slev Stah-s nt Trentbain last spring, and 'ho Viirht TJ'id eolt. Nicht Attack. Tie' latter, i half brother t>> the All-tia'ian • aeU Cold l!od. showed no form las! ■eason. C'erne Abbas and The Bnz/.T "were last ■ ear"« winners of the Xow .Zealand and \nrkl.-"d Cups respectively. while Wotan lias a Melbourne Cup to liis credit. Willie

Win haa.« second in the (Melbourne Chip is evidence of hi* ability te run twb Argentic, with two wins nr the Metronolt* tan Pooty Jand Pad«hah i Wellington a Flood Tide (Mitchelaon < up) and Arctic Kins ([Great Autumn Handicap) are among the mile-and-a-hal! women. ■ | • •; • | There i» thus a strong contingent of proved atayera in the list along with other iioran that have run weU enonch.to su2*eat that they will add to the interest, i'Mrt from those thai are likely to prov£ themselves whan triad mfles.---The entries are:—* . J ' $ nbw of - c«p £T" . value £75. Two' nrtfes. • AmmMß ' S&fai* (l I C HlfhSiea Dictate v. Gajtlton ■ ■ Ponty Wom» Onat" BraaiMc Onweof Bong ArHje Klngq g HiM XUrt Psisdlae H-' Nlfbt Attack Sparkle Pink Robe Ifeaveaae Btrkology Sly Fez Mung&toon aSSJf" r--%sr*m~— - IrMtOe Kelly . /Slam 4 ■ Malagtsl ">"» j Klnlock Willie Will ■fi \ Pnrote f Trench right > ss^r"JTansssan |•. v-y vp Made Money t - Boomerang ~ $.