Capt. Harcourt to run at Adelaide

Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34045, 8 January 1976, Page 6

Capt. Harcourt to run at Adelaide

l I '.V.z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. Captain Har court will now [ definitely tilt for Inter-Dominion. honours in Adelaide next month.! He will not receive a rehandi-t cap for his Auckland Cup win. i The New Zealand chief handi- [ capper. Mr Tim Morton, con-; tacted his Australian counter-' part yesterday about a rehandicap for Captain Harcourt and immediately phoned the horse's Auckland owner. Mr Ted Ben-; nett, with the good news. Captain Harcourt is off the j front in all events at the Ade-1 I aide carnival and in his cur- ' rent form will be a worthy representative of New Zealand. “We will now by-pass Wellington and keep him fresh for the trip.” said Mr Bennett. , ■‘Tom Knowles will be our driver.” But while South Australian trotting officials should be pleased with this news, they will , no doubt be disappointed that'; the planned trip for Cardigan Bay to Adelaide has been called off. “Cardy’* was walking short and obviously uncomfortable after his brief parade at the Trotting i Hall of Fame’s barbecue function at Alexandra Park late last > month. The Puketutu Island farm man-, ager Mr Lionel Ellis, said that after discussions with Sir Henry', Kelliher-. Mr Merv Dean, and ' Mrs Audrey Dean the owners of Cardigan Bay, it had been ! decided the long haul to Ade- < laide would be too much of an ordeal for the 19-year-old.