HILL STAKES AT ROSEHILL

Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 29010, 26 September 1959, Page 6

HILL STAKES AT ROSEHILL

Staying Test For Supertax 'N.Z Press Association—Copyright! „ SYDNEY. September 25. The New Zealand-owned Supertax, second favourite for the Caulfield Cup, will meet the brilliant Australian three-year-olds Noholme and Perouse in the Hill Stakes—feature race of tomorrow’s Rosehill meeting. Keenest interest is being centred on the mile and a half weight-for-age event, particularly as the Epsom favourite. Woolsack, will also be making an appearance. Supertax disappointed at his last start in the Chelmsford Stakes, won by Pique, at Randwick on September 12.

The New Zealand trainer, Ivan Tucker, said' today that Supertax's form in the Hill Stakes could have an important bearing on the four-year-olds spring campaign—particularly for the Caulfield Cup In the Rosehill Welter Handicap (seven furlongs and a half), another Epsom candidate who may come into prominence for the big Randwick mile is the New Zealand gelding

With the exception of Balfast, which will run in the Hill Stakes. Metropolitan and Cup horses will contest the Rosehill Cup over a mile and a quarter. Commanding attention along with the odds-on favourite Nyngan in the Encourage Handicap (one mile and a quarter), is the three-year-old New Zealand gelding Sabaois. But Sabaois, a good fourth to Nadar Shah, Chartwell and Earl Carol over a mile and a quarter at Rosehill last Saturday, will need to win impressively to prove a threat to glamour colt Martello Towers in the Derby at Randwick on Saturday week. J