TROTTING Arapaho certain cup starter

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32554, 13 March 1971, Page 8

TROTTING Arapaho certain cup starter

Earlier in the week it seemed likely that the Hororata Cup field might be minus two of its strongest form runners. One of them, Globe Bay, has dropped out of the race but the other, Arapaho, will definitely run.

After paying np for Arapaho in today’s SIBOO two-miler, the colt’s Templeton trainer, J. W. Smolensk!, decided to adopt a wait-and-see policy when he returned from Hutt Park. He had to be sure that the Wellington campaign had not left Mr L. Forde’s smart three - year - old jaded.

In the last few days Arapaho convinced his trainer that he had no cause

for worry and yesterday it was announced that he would definitely run. That decision has probably settled thb question of favouritism for the first leg of the Hororata Trotting Club’s T.A.B. concession double.

Arapaho, which will be driven by his trainer, and his stablemate, Hot Feet, for which a driver has yet to be engaged, are almost certain to be the most popular fancy. Globe Bay, which left with his trainer, J. A. Carmichael, for the north yesterday morning, will be one of several horses to represent

Canterbury stables at the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting tonight. Although Carmichael took only Globe Bay north—he left Chequer Board and Cardigan Lass at home—the south will still be numerically strong at the fixture. In the main race and the first leg of the T.A.B. double, the Patron's Handicap, only one of the seven runners left in the field is North Islandtrained.

Our Auckland correspondent favours this runner, Black Watch, in his picks, but he also likes Selwyn Hanover, from the South Island.