CARDIGAN BAY

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30157, 14 June 1963, Page 5

CARDIGAN BAY

Campaign At Addington

“The Press" Special Service INVERCARGILL. June 13.

The champion pacer, Cardigan Bay, would resume racing at the National meeting at Addington in August Mr M. B. Dean, of Auckland, whose wife races the Hal Tryax gelding, said from Auckland last night.

Cardigan Bay, which had been spelled for three weeks on returning from Australia, had done well during his letup and it was intended to put him back in work next week.

At Addington he would have a free-for-all to suit him if last season’s programme was adhered to. He would also race at the Wellington Trotting Club’s spring meeting at Hutt Park in September, where there was a free-for-all on the programme. Asked if Cardigan Bay would start in the next New Zealand Trotting Cup, in which his present assessment would put him on 60 yards behind if the cup limit was 4min 23sec, Mr Dean said that it was considered that, this handicap would be too great and at present plans were not to start him in the cup. Instead Cardigan Bay would

be flown to Australia to contest the Spring Cup in October, at Herald Park, where the maximum handicap was 48 yards against weaker fields than he would strike in New Zealand from longer marks. His trainer, P. T. Wolfenden, would take him to Sydney. Mr Dean said that they had no complaint about the mark on which Cardigan Bay was put, but handicap races in New Zealand were now out of the question for him. When he was not being campaigned in Australia he would certainly race in New Zealand where free-for-all opportunities arose.