INVITATION DECLINED
Great Sensation To Stay Home (N.Z. Press Association) ' DUNEDIN. February 10. Mr D. W. Brown, the Wingatui owner-trainer of Great Sensation, said today that his horse would not make the trip to Sydney for the £IO.OUO Invitation Stakes at Randwick on March 25. Mr Brown said that while he was greatly honoured by being invited by the Australian Jockey Club to contest the feature race for the second year in succession, he felt it would not do Great Sensation justice to take him to Australia at this time of the year. The Cassock eight-year-old had done well since his recordbreaking two-mile race in the Wellington Cup, and he was still in light work, but he did not thrive in the heat, he said. "It is asking too much of the horse to set him for two major handicaps in one season.” No programme had been mapped out for Great Sensation in the near future, but he was making satisfactory progress in his education in the Wood stalls at Wingatui. He had now become used to the stalls, and it was expected that no trouble would be experienced on race day, Mr Brown said.
Great Sensation refused to enter the stalls for the Trentham Stakes on the last day of the Wellington Cup meeting.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29436, 11 February 1961, Page 6
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