RACING STIPULATE TO GO TO MELBOURNE

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30041, 28 January 1963, Page 4

RACING STIPULATE TO GO TO MELBOURNE

Programme Announced

After Win

Stipulate finished a magnificent campaign in New Zealand this season with a win in the £2500 Trentham Stakes, run at weight«for*age, on the final day of the Wellington Cup meeting on Saturday.

Either on February 5 or February 7, he will be flown to Australia to meet Australia’s top handicap and weight-for-age performers.

Stipulate brought tags earnings to £lB4lO tor the season with his win on Saturday. He won this race, his seventh for the season, by half a heed from Key, and then there was half a length to Moy.

The big disappointment of the race was the failure of the favourite. Great Sensation, which faded to the tail of the field after disputing the lead from the six furlongs to the home turn. Great Sensetion felt the hard ground, and could not cone up with anything like one of his beat gaUops.

Plana for Stipulate’s Australian campaign were announced on Saturday night. Mr A. E. Davis’s champion returned to Takanini yesterday morning, and wfil be accompanied on the flight to Mefcoume by at least four other hones. He wi-U run at the Royal meeting at Flemington on February 23, either in the Royal Cup. a IJm handicap, or the Duke of Edinburgh Stakes, a mile weight-tor-age. £BOOO Race The Takanini trainer, C. M. J Blings, will then give Stipulate a special preparation for the V.R.C. £BOOO Queen Elizabeth Stakes, run over Ijm at weight-for-age on March 18. Other suitable races for turn are the St. George Stakes, weight-for-age, nine furtongs, on March 2, and the V.R.C. Queen's Plate, weight-for-age, one mile and a quarter, on March 11.

“We’U have to win that race on March 11,*’ JiHings aasd on Saturday. "March 11 is my birthday.”

Other members of the Jillinai team left at Takanini

wS be prepared by V. B. Johnson white the Australian caenpaign is on. No definite arrangements

have been made for a rider for Stipulate, but J. T. Anderson will make the trip if suitable arrangements can be made.

Anderson has won the Auckland and New Zealand Cups, and the Clifford Plate and Trentham Stakes on the five-year-old this season. Anderson rode Stipulate skilfully on Saturday, securing a trailing run on the inside. He had a bit of trouble getting a run through between Picaroon and Great Sensation near the two furkmgs, and it was late when he pegged back Key. Key and Moy placed themselves in firm favour for races at the Royal meeting at Riccarton with sound runs for minor placings behind Stipulate. But Great Sensation may not race at Riccarton if the tracks do not ease. Great Sensation will return from the North Island tomorrow and will remain at Riccarton for a few days until a decision is made. Ground Too Hard A decision not to take the Wrngatui veteran to Melbourne far the Royal meeting there was made before his failure in the Trentham Stakes. "There is nothing wrong with the obi horse,” said Great Sensation’s ownerframer, Mr D. W. Brown, after the Trentham Stakes. “The ground beat him.”

This was confirmed by the Wingatud jockey, R. J. Skelton, who said that Great Sensation was never galloping kindly.

SkeJibon said hi» only chance was to go to the front because of the muddling pace early in the race. They took 43jsec for the first three furlongs and 48isec for the last half mile. The complete distance of 11 furlongs took kmdn 18}sec. After a furlong in the Trentham Stakes, Picaroon was pulling hard in front, but with little to spare from Moy and Key. Stipulate was getting the rails run behind the three Hastings-trained contenders, and Great Sensation was another length back ait the tail of the field. Moy was taken forward to lead Picaroon by half a length at the mile, but Picaroon regained the lead when the pace sharpened a moment latter, R. J. Skelton made the next move. He took Great Sensation forward to join Picaroon in the lead at the six furlongs, and then it looked more like a race in earnest. Great Sensation and Picaroon, the veterans of the field, started on the last half mile with half a length on Key. Stipulate was still getting the run of the race on the inside alongside Moy. The first sensation of the race came when Key dashed past Great Sensation in a few strides immediately on straightening up. Moy was brought wider for her challenge, and Anderson waited for the run through with Stipulate. Right ait the end it was left to Stipulate and Key to betide it out, and the Takanini champion got there by half a head. Moy was a good third half a length behind Key. Then there was a gap of four lengths to Picaroon, and five lengths to Great Sensation.