RACING N.Z. CUP ON SATURDAY

Press, Volume XC, Issue 27496, 2 November 1954, Page 4

RACING N.Z. CUP ON SATURDAY

CAPACITY FIELD LIKELY CLASS STRONG FOR MAIN RACES Twenty-five horses, five over the safety limit, remained in the 1954 New Zealand Cup.after the first acceptance yesterday. There will be a final payment of £2O at the post on Saturday, the second day and the big day of the Canterbury Jockey Club’s meeting. Coaltown dropped out of the field yesterday \ and has left Dormant closest to Golden Tan in the handicap. Golden Tan and Dormant were second and third behind Idaho in the Canterbury Cup on the first day of the meeting, and both will meet the Trentham horse on worse terms over another half mile this week. That is not likely to deter admirers of a class horse like Golden Tan, which should be much better for his run last week, his first this season over a distance. As winner of the Royal Wellington Cup and a top-flight performer at weight-for-age last season, Golden Tan gives class to the fleldr-class lacked by some New Zealand Cup fields in recent years. He will be attempting to equal Nightmarch’s feat of mastering 9st 61b. It is a test for a good horse; but a good horse Golden Tan undoubtedly is. D. P. Wilson’s pair. The Hob and The Lum, will be tested for the first time over the Riccarton two-miler. The Hob hqs already won a Stewards’ Handicap, so a Cup victory would give him a notable double.

The Hob wton the Great Autumn Handicap, one mile and a half, at Riccarton last Easter. His eight-year-old sister, The Lum, has won over a mile and a quarter at Riccarton, and was unlucky to finish no closer than fourth over that distance in the Fendalton Handicap last Saturday. Programme and Hy-Spin were both placed at the Wellington spring meeting, where Pleasure Bent won the Watkins Handicap over 11 furlongs. Chowder and Ocean Spray n, winner and runner-up in the Fendalton Handicap, are both acceptors, but Chowder is on the waiting list and will not get a run unless there are three scratchings. It will be bad luck for the Waimate ownertrainer, Mr A. M. A. Engelbrecht, if the five-year-old Siegfried entire does not get a run while he is in his present form. A long-awaited meeting between Clinker and King's Fair win probably take place In the Stewards* Handicap. Both are unbeaten in open company, but Clinker’s longer string of victories has placed him 111 b above the big Awapuhi horse. Clinker ha* had a spell and a set-back since he won the Great Autumn Handicap on his last trip to Riccarton, but on looks he is in first-class order to complete his preparation for the big sprint. King’s Fair has raced once previously this season. He won the Christchurch Hunt Club's Brabazon Handicap at the end of the old season, and then the Winter Cup on Grand National day. _Hush Money, brilliant winner of the Wellington Racing Club's Shorts Handicap on October 16, and Mighty Dollar, which recaptured his best form with a win at Gore last week, are other very fast sprinters, which raise the standard of this For sheer speed the Stewards’ Handicap field can have had few equals. . The double will be on the New Zealand Cup and the Stewards’ Handicap. The fields are:—

m >jh«— — SUBURBAN HIGH-WEIGHT HANDICAP. Of £500. One mil and a quarter. st. Ib st. lb. Delayed (14) 10 10 First Whack Braxe (8) 10 7 (12) Lovelock (15) 10 5 Countenance Super 10 1 (1) Tarantella (9) 9 9 4 2 Relinquish Camaval (3) 9 1 Kasr el NU 0> 9 13 Belle Nult (17) 0 _ . «> 9 10 Great Tom Trustworthy (7) 9 0 . (5) 9 10 Alb (16) 9 0 Escalsdo (18) 9 9 Devalue (6) 9 0 Bon Soir (11) S 6 . Patris (13) 9 0 _ Brackets: Relinquish and Escalado. Bon Solr and Belle Nult. 11.42 a.m.— WELCOME STAKES. Of £1500. Two-year-olds. Five furlongs. st. lb. st. lb. Great Seal Omar (9)) 8 5 8 5 Seven Seas Instanter (7) 8 5 (4) 8 5 Keep Time Skylight (2) 8 5 (3) 8 5 Can’t Fault Lammas (1) 8 5 (8) 8 0 Motueka (5) 8 5 12.27 p.m.—— SPRING PLATE, Of £500. Seven furlongs. st. lb. st. lb. Gold Trend Calcutta Sweep (31) 8 10 (25) 7 11 Golden Morn Leprechaun (S) 8 10 (23) 7 11 Golden Shoes Mundus (24) 7 11 (7) 8 6 Royal Tryst Ripon (18) 8 4 (12) 7 11 Joss (3) ft 4 Shoal (2) 7 11 Arosa (11) ft 1 Gold Flame Iroquoi (13) 8 0 (9) 7 11 Super Corn (20) 8 0 Struggle (1) Deviate (14) 7 11 11 Mandrake Decipher (17) 7 11 (22) 7 12 Mayonnaise Red Biretta (8) 7 11 (19) 7 12 Meteorologist Smuggles (4) 7 12 (5) 7 11 Kiaree Beau Hispaniola (15) 7 11 (16) 7 11 Giltspur (10) 7 11 Bracket: Deviate and Decipher. 1*12 pmvr— NEW ZEALAND CUP. Of £5100. Pwo miles. st. lb. st. lb. Golden Tan On Parade (23) 9 6 (25) 7 4 Dormant (8) 8 11 Marjo (17) 7 3 The Hob (11) 8 3 Bosky (1) 7 3 Idaho (16) 8 3 Glenkay (10) 7 3 Field Chief Highland Lassie . (8) 7 13 (20) 7 2 Hy-Spin (13) Programme 7 10 Clancy (5) Trinidad (12) 7 7 1 0 (7) 7 8 Land Agent Ocean Sprawl 7 7 (3) Reformed 7 0 The Lum (9) 7 7 (24) 7 0 Pleasure Bent Tyro (18) 7 0 Balloted out with the right oi re-entry in the following order:— Toparoa (14) 7 0 Solstice (2) 7 0 Josudl (15) 7 0 Lady Wanaka Chowder (4) 7 0 (22) 7 0 Brack-ts: The Hob and The Lum, Reformed and Lady Wanaka. 13 P4n j»BW ZEALAND DERBY, Of £3000. One mile and a half. ft lb. it lb. Cambridge Passchenedaele (11) Gold Ember k ft 10 Port Boy ( (9) 8 10 8 10 (8) 8 10 Privy Gold Peril Council (13) 8 10 (14) 8 10 Ray Ribbon Gulliver (4) 8 10 e. , M 8 10 Honest John Saba (7) 8 10 (3) 8 10 The Bruiser I’m Alone (16) 8 10 (5) 8 10 Three Step Magic Toupet 8 10 Glenlee (6) 8 10 8 5 Nuclear (15) 8 10