OOPIK WILL MISS CUPd

Press, Volume CXIV, Issue 33671, 22 October 1974, Page 8

OOPIK WILL MISS CUPd

! (N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright, MELBOURNE ! The trainer. D. J. O’Sullivan M ! nounced yesterday that Oooik I definitely would not run in thl Melbourne Cup. ‘ • ! “For the first time since Iv. been in Australia. 1 know when I’m going with Oopik,” O'Smit : van said. I “He will start in the Cox Plat, on Saturday, but he won t run lin the Cup. He hasn’t done enough.” “I’ll be happy to win the fox Plate. But the wet tracke haven’t allowed me to work him hard enough to run In a 320 q metres race.” he said. “I’m going to instruct TO v jockey to ride him from behind in the Plate, too. “The only place I want him in front is at the winning post.” Oopik tried to lead ail the way in the Coongy Handicap l att Wednesday after O’Sullivan h»d told stewards the horse would not handle the heavy going. “Oopik has done wet) in the last few days, but he still is not the horse we know In New Zealand. “1 have discussed the matter with the owmer and he’s come around to my way of thinking,” O’Sullivan said. Caulfield dividends.— Dividends paid bv the T.A.B. on the Caulfield Cup on Saturday were: Win: $3.60. Places: $1.70, $23.05, $1.35.