Wolfenden will not compare Young Quinn

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33653, 1 October 1974, Page 10

Wolfenden will not compare Young Quinn

(“The Press” Special Service AUCKLAND P. T. Wolfenden, who main tained iiis unbeaten record with Young Quinn when the combination had the easiest oi wins m the C. F. Mark Memorial al Alexandra Park on Saturday night, will not be drawn into making a comparison between Young Quinn and the horse he set on the road to world fame. Cardigan Bay. “You can’t compare horses of different eras.” he said after Young Quinn had won from 40 metres and scored bx an even bigger margin than when he took the corresponding race from 30 metres on the first night' of the Auckland Trotting Club meeting. “Young Quinn is good, very good. But after all Cardigan’

Bav won an Inter Dominion. New Zealand Cup and Auckland Cup all in the one year and went on to become the first standardbred in history to win Sim. Saturday's win was Young Qumo’s fifth on end in the hands of Wolfenden and it established the Cambridge live year-old as a clear-cut early favourite for the New Zealand Trotting Cup at Addington on November 12. He finished third in the cup last year. The opposition in the Mark Memorial was a good bit yveaker than he will meet in the $50,000 cup. But it is extremely doubtful whether any other horse in the country could have matched Young Quinn’s performance on Saturday. As usual he began smartlv and was travelling com-

fortabb on the outside, al tha back of the mam bunch. Wolfenden let him go altei passing the 800 metres. A roar went up from the crowd a« Young Quinn scorched round she field and into the lead before leaving the back straight Aft* that, will) Wolfenden having an armchair drne. it was nist a Question of which would bs second The very wet track ruled on' any possibility of Young Quinn * world record for 2200 metres, set on the first night, being broken In the conditions his time of 2min 52sec was quite exceptional He will be gn en a short let-up. according to his trainer. < S. Hunter, and will have Ins next race at the Auckland Trotting Club’s meeting which opens on October 26. The main race on each of the two nights will be run over a distance, probably 2700 metres, under invitation conditions. An open-class horse cannot be rehandicapped for distance events by winning sprints (under 2400 metres! so Young Quinn will be on an easier mark than in the Mark Memorial. His Southland owners. Messrs R. O. and D. J Baynes, of Eden dale, could be pardoned for thinking there are more easy pickings in store.