Cummings not attending Trentham
(N.Z. Press Assn—Copyright) MELBOURNE. The top Australian trainer, Bart Cummings, said that he was unlikely to buy any yearlings at the national sale in Wellington this month. Cummings said that be has a lot of orders to buy yearlings but at this stage thought he would concentrate his buying in Sydney and Adelaide. “Tile yearlings to be offered in Sydney and Adelaide are topclass this year and I will be operating at those two sales.” Cummings said. The New Zealand sales will be held on January 21 and 22. Cummings said in Sydney yes terday that he had made no plans to be In New Zealand for the yearling sale. If Gummings does not atteiul the New Zealand sales It will he .) great blow to breeders. He and the Sydney trainer. Tommy Smith, have dominated the sales for the last 10 years. Australian owners highly value Cummings’s great knowledge and I experience of New Zealand horses and are prepated to pin I big prices for potential cup ami! classic winner) selected tn the. trainer.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34046, 9 January 1976, Page 2 (Supplement)
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