VALUATE TENTH

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30938, 20 December 1965, Page 5

VALUATE TENTH

Still Cup Favourite (N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) ADELAIDE. The New Zealand-bred Valuate, favourite for the £8258 Port Adelaide Cup at Cheltenham on December 28, is still a strong fancy, although he ran only tenth in a field of 16 in the 12furlong Challenge Stakes at Cheltenham on Saturday. Valuate firmed in the cup favouritism after his brilliant win over a mile in the Adelaide Town Plate at Victoria Parte a fortnight ago. In this week’s race the New Zealander drew wide and covered a tremendous amount of extra ground. Valuate started favourite at 9/4. He was ridden by the Melbourne Cup - winning jockey R. Higgins, who gave up another engagement at Moonee Valley yesterday to get a ride* on Valuate before the cup. Higgins will again have the mount in the cup.

The winner of the Challenge Stakes was Bright Blend, a New Zealand-bred gelding by Summertime. Bright Blend (10/1) beat Marchant (20/1) by threequarters of a length with Rack and Ruin (20/1) a short half-head away third. Three others winners at Cheltenham were bred in New Zealand. Theye were Galilee (by Alcimedes), which was a hot 7/4 on favourite for the lOj-furiong Birkenhead Handicap, Secret Field, 10/9 favourite over seven furlongs, and another Summertime horse, Sun Lad, which won at his first start over hurdles. BEEFTON JOCKEY CLUB, INC. NOMINATIONS for our Two Day Summer Meeting to be held on the lt2h and ISth January, 1986, close with the Secretary, Box 42. Reefton, on WEDNESDAY. 22nd DECEMBER. 1985, at 4 p.m. —Advt.