RACING Polo Prince Selected For Trentham Ist Leg

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30178, 9 July 1963, Page 4

RACING Polo Prince Selected For Trentham Ist Leg

(from Our Own Reporter)

WELLINGTON, July 8.

Polo Prince, Kumai, and Beauzami, the entrants for the big cup races in Melbourne this year, may be the pick of the field for the Parliamentary Handicap, the first leg of the TA.B. double at Trentham on Wednesday.

Polo Prince won up to a mile and a half as a hack and easily beat the open class stayers over 11 furlongs at Hastings last Saturday week. He carried 7-8 at Hastings and has 8-1 in the Parliamentary Handicap, which places him a stone below Kumai and 131 b below Beauzami.

Kumai won this race last year with 7-11, then won the Winter Oats at his next start. In the meantime he has also won the Dunedin Jockey Club’s Provincial Handicap and the Canterbury Jockey Club’s Sockhum Handicap. He won the Dunedin race with 9-4 on a soft track by inches from Desert Chief, which was also his strongest rival in the Winter Oats at Trentham a year ago.

Kuman has firmly established his claim tn class as a w; rater performer and a weight carrier After two or three good gallops since his arrival from the south test week he looks ready for anything

Bea-uzami carried topweight of 9-5 in the Whyte Handicap. He lost a handy position on the inside early in toe race, dr.fti.ng several places alongside toe rails be'ween the half-mile and the turn. He had a run left in him in the straight, but the traffic was too thick, and he could make no headway. He finished seventeenth Beauzami has won under th< worst winter conditions And he has also raced well against the best available summer performers Last December he won the Queen Elizabeth Handicap, one mile and a half, at Ellerslie As winner of 10 races and over £13.000 he has not been badly treated compared with Kumai. which has had eight wins and has earned £4210 Second Last Year Action Packed, which has 8-13. carried lib more into second place in the Parliamentary Handicap a year ago H.- will meet Kumai 191 b better this time, and it does not seem likely that he has slipped that much not to rate a place chance at least. On Whyte Handicap form McCool is a storager prospect then Shangri-La McCool was hardly ever out of trouble in the big mile, yet finished fourth

If he gallops just as gt nerously again he will take beating with 8-5 This is ondy 41b more than he carried in winning toe Greet Autumn Ha nek cap by seven lensjtos at Riccarton tn April Obrana. My Conrtact. and Parlez are others attempting to give weight to Polo Prince My Contact at best would be good enough to do just tbar on a heavy track This Waikato stayer came to Tremtiham a veer ago and rar second with 9-9 to toe very useful Sybeau in a tn rtdle distance hack race. He wor tw< open class races early in toe season, one at Avondale on a heavy track, and later ran very •olid races in good company on Iran ground He ran Beauzami to a neck when carrying 8-2 in toe Queen Elizabeth Handicap at the Auckland Cup meeting and recorded fourths in two starts over a mile and a half ait

tot Wellington Cup meeting tn January.

Beau Kura, a strongly finishing sixth in the Whyte Handicap, looks the best of the light-weights.

Mantovani Stands Out

On first day form Mantovani will be the .hardest to beat in the Members’ Handicap, the second leg of the TA B double. Mantovani dead-heated with Re-Echo in the Stewards’ Handicap, run over the same distance on Saturday While Re-Echo had to come right from the tail of the field to split the decision, Mantovani also came through the race with honours. He was only two or three places in front of Re-Echo until A. M. Dulieu "set him alight” between the half-mile and the three furlongs. Mantovani made such a spectacular run around the outside that he looped the whole field and was clear immediately after they straightened up. Little Wonder then that he showed some signs of tiredness when Re-Echo came storming after him inside the final furlong Supreme Gold is another obvious prospect after his second ip the Whyte Handicap. Now Fitter Bargoed, the unplaced win favourite in the Whyte Handicap, rates another chance for he has bumped off his stride near the five furlongs in the big mile, then had to be brought widest of all in a long chase after the leaders. He finished eighth, but almost in line with the fourth horse McCool. Bargoed will be even fitter for this test. He blew hard after his race on Saturday. Another not quite at peak

on Saturday was the Riccarton trained Waverley. I. McClure would have liked to have given him one more race before he came north, but he was balloted out of the Maronan Handicap at Ashburton. Waverley led round the home turn in the Stewards’ Handicap, then tired to thirteenth and pulled up blowing hard. He can accelerate quickly and might be hard to beat here though drawn rather badly. Toureg. with all his 9-11, should be the pick of the others He is better at seven furlongs than a mile from his present place in the weights, and few can handle very heavy tracks better than this Carterton sprinter. St. Malo and Golden Dreamer may carry off the

3.25 p.m. MEMBERS’ HANDICAP, £ 1000: about 7f.

on-course double, which is on the Juvenile Handicap and the Matau Steeplechase. Fields, form and riders, for the T.A.B. double races are:— 1.55 p.m. PARLIAMENTARY HANDICAP, £2000: about Ilf. st. lb

1015 Kum-ai (6), B. J. 9 1 Anderton 1000 Beauzami (3) 9 0 0024 Action Packed (8) 8 13 2630 Shangri-La (11), J. D. Medealfe 8 12 0854 McCool, (2). N. Eastfood 8 5 3311 Obrana (10), B. F. Andrews 8 3 3103 Parlez (13) 8 2 0670 My Contact (15), J. T. Anderson R 2 0031 Polo Prince (9) 8 1 0003 Tom Foolum (1), N. W. Belsham 7 13 0417 King's Cove (5), V. R Coley 7 13 5800 Switzerland (7), A. E. Skinner 7 11 0040 Heidi (12), W. T. Day 7 11 6992 Count Filou (4) 7 9 3396 Beau Kura (16). T. J. Rudd 7 8 0000 Mareato (14), K. D. Cullen 7 7

1130 Toureg (12), R. A Jenkins .. 9 11 2214 Acis (9) . 9 8 0012 Supreme Gold 3), J. P. Hayes . 9 7 4178 Bairgoed (4), B. L Hillis 9 5 4100 Sonare (1) .. 8 13 4241 Mantovand (13), A M. Dulieu 8 9 1259 Croydon's Gold (5) 8 6 0430 Saini Nicholas (2), J. T. Anderson .. 8 8 3229 Maskour (8), A. E. Skinner 8 4 3105 Ups and Downs (18). R W. Taylor 8 4 0040 Teachers (16). D Doell 8 3 4000 Alphie (7). A. T. Jones . 8 0 0800 Khoringa (17), J. D. Medea Ife 8 0 0000 Miss Halo (10), K S. Cullen . . 8 0 0530 Return Faire 6) . . 8 0 2000 Silver Theme (11), W. T. Day . . 8 0 OOOO Speedwell (14), P J. Kempton .. 8 0 0800 Waverley (15) .. 8 0