PRINCE GRANT HOT SYDNEY CUP CHOICE
(Special Correspondent N.Z.P A.)
SYDNEY. The New Zealand-bred three-year-old, Prince Grant, has become an even shorter-priced favourite for the £16.000 Sydney Cup (two mrJes) at Randwick today, after Craftsman’s win at the course on Saturday. Bookmakers sliced Prince Grant’s odds after Craftsman won the weight-for age Autumn Stakes because Prince Grant had beaten him at Warwick Farm the previous week. Craftsman was scratched from the cup last week, when his connexions decided he had no chance of giving Prince Grant 181 b, as he was handicapped to do. The second favourite is Striking Force, which carried 9st 31b, 71b more than his weight today, when he ran third to Craftsman and Versailles. Closely behind are the New Zealand-bred challengers. High Principle and Tasman Lad. The latter has been specially prepared for the event. He showed he is at the top of his form when he won over a mile on April 2. High Principle has won his last three races, although he hu yet
■to race further than a mile and . a half. The only New Zealander in the [ field to have made a special trip for the race is Apa, which has . disappointed in three Australian . starts. Other New Zealand-bred start- . ers in the event are Trawlerman, , Victory Boy and Arc-En-Ciel. i The field Is;—Bore Head, 9-0, I F. Clarke; Striking Force, 8-10, . K. Langby; River Seine. 8-9, G. Podmore; Apa, 8-7, K. Reggett: i Prince Grant, 8-2, G. Moore: Tasman Lad, 8-0, B. Higgins; Hyde, , 8-0, W. Camer; Victory Bov, > 7-13. A. Mulley: Go Glenn. 7-11. , R. McCarthy: Trawlerman, 7-7. P. Miers; Little Corporal, 7-4, S. , Cassidy: Gin and Bitters, 7-3, N I Voigt: Olympus, 7-3: High Print cipie, 7-3, N. Campton: Arc-En- ( del, 7-2: Loona Boy, 7-1; The Yank, 7-0. K. Quinton. I : FOR capacity, variety, a wide I range of information, plus an , EARLY start, decide now, dial 50-199, "THE PRESS" classifieds i Read and used dally by more ; than <8,500 families.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31031, 11 April 1966, Page 5
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