Gay Poss out again?

Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32635, 17 June 1971, Page 8

Gay Poss out again?

(N.Z. Press Association)

MELBOURNE. The come-back of the top flight New Zealand-bred mare. Gay Poss, tarn be ended. Gay Poss (Le Filou—Sweet Time)' finished last in the Lancaster Handicap (7f) at Flemington on Monday after starting 7/2 favourite and appears to have suffered a recurrence of the back injury that put her out of racing last spring before the Melbourne Cup. Her trainer. J. B. Cummings, and her Melbourne owners will discuss her future later this week, but according to the stable foreman, R. McDonell, “It does not look too good." Cummings appears set to take both the South Australian and Victorian tralnera’ premierships for the second successive season—a unique achievement in Australian turf history. He has an unbeatable lead in South Australia and seems certain .to take the Victorian title.

Cummings won a record 6333,930 In four states last season and this year has netted 3331263. With another six weeks of the season remaining he ahould eclipse last season’s tally. He already would have done so had Chilton won the Brisbane Cup on Monday Instead of going down by half a head. The major part of Cummings’s stakes total this season has been earned by New Zealand-bred

King’s Court rehandicapped King’s Court, a winder at Nelson on Tuesday has been rehandicapped to 36 yards In the Clarendon Handicap at the Canterbury Park Trotting Club’s meeting on Saturday night.

HoMn-one.—A 17-handlcapper, W. C. R. Baker, a member oi the Christchurch Taxis Golf Club, scored an ace on the 110yard seventh hole at Avondale on Monday. He used a sevenIron for the shot