RACING No risks taken with top cup entrants

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32628, 9 June 1971, Page 8

RACING No risks taken with top cup entrants

The Caulfield Cup the first leg of the famous Australian spring cups double—is still more than four months away, but the first charts are already out, and they carry the same old message.

The message: there is no road to racing riches coupling up well-performed horses, especially New Zealand horses, in the two cups.

Nothing less than fanaticism would tempt any Kirrama admirers accepting at this distance odds of 50 to one about Mrs Greene’s three-year-old winning both cups.

A leading Melbourne bookmaker, who does big business on the cups double, has Kirrama the second favourite for the Caulfield Cup, and on the third line, with last year’s winner, Baghdad Note, in the Melbourne Cup. Kirrama will almost certainly be joined among the top fancies for the Caulfield Cup by the Woodville-trained Triton.

I The first charts came out t before Triton’s easy win in i the Auckland Racing Club’s ’ York Handicap last Saturday, ■ and in them, this unbeaten . three-year-old was on the ' seventh line of favouritism . ' for the Caulfield Cup. J The favourite combination J

for the two cups on the first chart is Gay Icarus and Clear Prince, at 100. Went close Clear Prince went close to putting three-year-olds back on to the winning records of the Melbourne Cup last

spring. He finished third behind Baghdad Note and Vansittart.

New Zealand stayers on the fourth line of favouritism for the Melbourne Cup are Ansin and Princess Mellay—winners of the Wellington and New Zealand Cups, respectively, this season; Silver Knight, which carried off the two St Legers; and Suttle. The best price on offer about Kirrama with Ansin, Princess Mellay, Silver Knight, and Suttle, is 330. And Kirrama with Not Again. Panzer Chief, Skint Dip, and Tiromai is at 400.

Rated stronger Princess Mellay is rated a stronger .chance than Baghdad Note for the Caulfield Cup, and is quoted at 125 to win the two cups. Baghdad Note, which deadheated for third in the Caul, field Cup before winning the Melbourne Cup last spring, is on the sixth line for the Caulfield Cup, and his price for the two cups is 140. Sharing the sixth line of Caulfield Cup favouritism with Baghdad Note are Anne Gable, Game, and Lancelot.

Golf.—Mr E. Lusk, of Sydney, has 'been appointed captainmanager of the Australian team which will compete in the Commonwealth golf tournament in Auckland from October 19 to 23.