STUDIO TO CONTEST AUCKLAND CUP

Press, Volume C, Issue 29674, 18 November 1961, Page 5

STUDIO TO CONTEST AUCKLAND CUP

Studio will do bis holiday racing at Ellerslie and the £ll,OOO Auckland Cup, to be run on the third day of the Auckland Racing Club’s summer meeting on New Year's Day. will be his principal mission. Arrangements have been made by K. J. Thomson, who trains Studio for Mr M. M. Hibbard, of Christchurch, to have the Count Rendered gelding taken north by the Riccarton trainer. G. S. Barr, who will be represented at Auckland by the New Zealand Derby winner, Burgos. Both horses will probably ’eave for the north during the second week of December.

The other active members of the Thomson team will probably do their holiday racing on the South Canter-bury-North Otago circuit, but Thomson will be at Ellerslie on Auckland Cup day to saddle Studio for New Zealand's richest two-mile race. Pre-race plans for Studio have not yet been compleetd He may run at the Ohinemuri meeting at Paeroa on De-

cember 16. If Lha-t meeting is by-passed it is fairly definite that he will compete on the first two days at Ellerslie to fit him. for his cup attempt. . Burgos's first race on his northern campaign will be the Great Northern Derby on the first day of the Auckland meeting on Boxing Day.

‘ How he fares in that race will have a definite bearing on plans for his campaign on the later days of the meeting.” said G. S. Barr yesterday. .. Burgos has been nominated for the Auckland Cup and also the King’s Plate, a weight-for-age event for milers, on Auckland Cup day.