RACING CUP MEETING AT TRENTHAM

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28795, 16 January 1959, Page 4

RACING CUP MEETING AT TRENTHAM

Summer Glow-Lion For Double

Summer Glow, Foxmara, and Yeman are expected to battle it out for , Wellington Cup honours at Trentham tomorrow. They appear to give the Auckland district very strong representation in the second richest race of the season.

Summer Glow is in the powerful Takanini team of the leading trainer, G. W. B. Greene. She will be ridden by G. F. Hughes, who has not yet ridden a Wellington Cup winner.

Foxmara is trained at Te Rapa by R. T. Cotter, who will also saddle up Llanisfair for the race. Foxmara, one of the last of the stock of the great Foxbridge, will be ridden by W. A. Smith. He is four and one of the youngest in the field. Stamina was a major part of his performance when he finished third behind Froth and Royal Jester in the Auckland Cup this year.

The six-year-old Yeman has already contested two Wellington Cups and won brilliantly last year. He carried 8-4 in last year's Cup and has 9-1 tomorrow. Since he last raced at Trentham, Yeman has been campaigned in Australia. He started favourite for the 1958 Melbourne Cup, but after a buffeting in a rough race, finished fourth. J. W. Harris will ride Yeman tomorrow.

Froth and Balfast, the Auckland and New Zealand Cup winners, are two of several notabilities in the field.

South Island representation will be left to Ark Royal, a Wingatui-trained stayer owned by Mr G. J. Barton. Ark Royal will carry 9-0 and win be giving weight to some good stayers, but in his present form he should take beating.

His only previous test over the distance was in the last New Zealand Cup. He ran third.

Second Leg A start for Regal Dignitary in the Telegraph Handicap was not certain yesterday. This race is the second leg of the double. The ruling favourite is Lion, a four-year-old Dogger Bank gelding owned by the Wanganui studmaster, Mr J. G. Alexander.

Lion won the Newmarket Handicap at Ellerslie at his last start Before that he ran second to Yahabeebe in the Auckland Railway Handicap. Braganza, from Riccarton, and Salaam, from Takanini, could be Lion's strongest opponents. Salaam firmed in favour with a < smart sprint at Riccarton yester- . day. - The three-year-old Comte de Faris is expected to beat his older rivals in the Anniversary , Handicap. . He made a big Impression in < winning over seven furlongs at the Auckland Cup meeting. He was having his first start for the j season in New Zealand, and was not in the hard racing condition I of most of his rivals, so there j was much merit in his effort to beat horses of the class of Salaam , and Supreme Court ( Australian Campaign t Comte de Paris did his early t three-year-old racing in Austra- 1 lia. In six starts there he won once and was four times placed, i He is a brown colt by Gold Nib from Sunny’s Last owned by < Mrs F. W. Richter and trained by t H. N. Wiggins at Ellerslie. i Horses in the bottom part of 1 the handicap have done well in i the Anniversary Handicap in the ]

last few years. Last year Summer Glow won with 8-3. Two years ago Cornflake recorded a memorable win in the race under 8-1.

He lost several lengths at the start, yet got up to win by half a length from Rise and Shine. It was one of the best efforts by a miler seen at Trentham for manv years.

Cornflake, now eight, wilt attempt to win the race again tomorrow. He has won at Wynd-

ham and Invercargill at his last two starts but a. victory under 3-10 in this class may be beyond him. Stronger South Island prospects will probably be the Oamarutrained Compensate, and Purser, from Riccarton. Compensate won twice in three starts at holiday meetings, and Purser has won his last two races —the Hororata Cup and the South Canterbury Christmas Handicap. Fondu, from Hawera, and Gold Medal, from Wanganui, are very good milers about the middle of the handicap They were two of the stars among the hacks at the Wellington spring meeting. Gold Medal won twice over a mile at that meeting. Fondu has raced twice in open company, and won at-his last start That was against the milers at Awapuni on December 27. when he led for the last half mile and beat the capable Bugle Boy by two lengths.