RACING Many Good Stayers Now In Stables In Manawatu

Press, Volume C, Issue 29421, 25 January 1961, Page 5

RACING Many Good Stayers Now In Stables In Manawatu

Manawatu stables have given New Zealand and Australian racing a rich crop of stayers in the last year or so, and it will be surprising if they do not have fnore outstanding successes over the next few months.

Hi-Jinx, Howsie, and Ilumquh gave Manawatu and New Zealand a notable triumph by filling the first three places in the £25,000 Centenary Melbourne Cup. Before that Ilumquh won the Caulfield Cup and he later won the Williamstown Cup.

Hi-Jinx has not managed to recapture her form since her return from Sydney, and Howsie might be lost to racing through a bowed tendon.

But there will -be a fresh band of good stayers in Sydney and Melbourne this year, and the Woodville stable of E. Ropiha could have a big hand in probably more than one of the major events. With a little more luck stayers from Ropiha’s stable could have made a clean sweep in major staying races at the Wellington Cup meeting. Ilumquh w r as a meritorious if distant third in the Wel-

lington Cup, after being left to come from a bad place at the tail of the field. Then his stable-mate, Kingdon, won the Wellington Racing Club Handicap, and Gold Merit, another member of the team, won the Summer Handicap on Monday. More than likely. Kingdom will do his autumn racing in Sydney. He will be down in the weights in big races like the Sydney Cup, and his advance programme in New Zealand is going along the same lines as Ilumquh’s last year. Ilumquh won the Summer

Handicap from the bottom of the handicap at Trentham a year ago. and did not race again until he got to Australia. Kingdom, like Ilumquh, was sired by Sabaean, and he traces to Trebelli 11, so he belongs to the same family as Miss Medley and others which have stayed well. He is two years younger than Gold Merit, which races in the same colours, and he should go further than that chestnut on firm tracks.