FROM STUD AND STABLE Galilee Up To Overseas Class, Trainer Says

Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31728, 11 July 1968, Page 5

FROM STUD AND STABLE Galilee Up To Overseas Class, Trainer Says

The Adelaide trainer, J. B. Cummings, who returned to Australia recently from a world tour, is confident Galilee would have won feature handicap races in England.

Cummings. who visited most of the leading racing and stud centres on his tour, won the 1966 Melbourne Cup with Galilee and is now preparing the brilliant New Zealand - bred stayer for a second tilt at the rich race next November. Cummings said there were more good horses in the major racing centres outside Australia. “But. of course, they breed many more horses than we do, and the good ones I have seen race here are up to the best overseas," he said. “I saw Royal Palace win this year's Coronation Cup dim) at Epsom. This is the

type of race Galilee could have won. “However, Royal Palace’s win was not a true staying test. There was very little pace on for the first half-mile, and the race would not have suited Galilee. “However, on flatter and more level tracks such as Ascot. Galilee would have held his own in big handicaps against the best horses. “He would have also beaten most of the best American horses over a distance, but certainly not on their tracks, particularly the dirt ones.” PRAISE FOR PIGGOTT Cummings said that of all the riders he saw, England’s Lester Piggott was the best or equal to the best anywhere. “After that the Australian jockeys riding in England would be the tops,” Cummings said. , “With American jockeys 11

put it down to a set standard. The system there is ‘first out and home.’ “I don’t think Australians would like American racing as much as English racing. “Over there, there are a lot of jockeys who speak only Spanish and if you can’t speak this language you are more or less out of it. “The best land I saw in America was Lexington in Kentucky. “It was beautifully lush and has English grasses similar to those grown here. “The biggest eye-opener as far as land for breeding purposes is concerned is the amazing improvement the Americans seem to manage. “However, we have country in Australia equal to it. Over there they have their dry periods the same as we have, although we seem to notice it more because of our vast spaces.

“In America there is a strong move for Sunday racing. I was told that legislation would probably be passed this year for Sunday racing in some States."

Third Race Success (From Our Own Reporter) TRENTHAM. Tudor Lad. impressive winner of the Seatoun Handicap at Trentham yesterday, has now won his last three races for his Hastings owner-trainer, J. M. Paul. Tudor Lad was a class above the others in the conditions yesterday. He was running keenly in the hands of R. B. Marsh at the girth of the pacemaking Jest-in-Time early and was allowed to bowl along be fore the straight. After straightening up Tudor Lad dashed clear in a fewstrides and won hands down by six lengths.! Jest-in-Time was in no danger of losing second. She was two lengths better than Fair Terms, which was fourth on the home turn. Morning Dew carried topweight of 9st lib into fourth place and Langelinie was fifth. Bigoted was one of the first beaten. He finished in a gap at the rear.