STAKES UP BY $800
Stakes for the) Wellington Racing Club’s meeting on May 8 and 15 have txien increased by $BOO. The club has also increased travelling allowances for its two remaining meetings of the season. The Capital Steeples, run at the May meeting, will be worth $2900, and will be for all classes. The distance as 4000 metres. Travelling afdowances for Canterbury horsefs engaged at the May and July meetings have been increased from $6O to $75. B. P. Thomson for Oamaru The talented Wanganui jockey Brent Thomson has been engaged to ride Shlfnal Rose at the Oamaru Jockey Club’s meeting next Monday. The two-year-old Shifnal Rose will run in the Brydone Stakes. Shifnal Rose is owned by Mr Hoghton Hughes, of Christchurch, and is trained at Rlccarton by Jim Wadley. Grand Canyon again? (N.Z.P.A. Staff Crspdti LONDON. Grand Canyon, the star New Zealand hurdler, which was deprived of a bid for the British champion’s title at Cheltenham today is an odds-on favourite to get a consolation win. The six-year-old gelding, which has won seven races in nine starts in Britain this season, may capture the two mile Lloyds Bank Champion Novices Hurdle with ease.
Grand Canyon’s part-owner, the Auckland businessman, Mr D. W. Samuel — who flew to England frojn New Zealand for tomorrow’s race — wanted the gelding to tackle Britain’s best hurdlers in the Champion Hurdle, which is worth about $37,400. But the trainer, Derek Kent, made a mistake when telephoning final acceptances for the meeting to the Jockey Club, naming a stablemate, Navigation, which is also owned by Mr Samuel, Instead of Grand Canyon. The jockey club later turned down an appeal that Grand Canyon should be reinstated in the field. Kent did however leave Grand Canyon in the Novices’ champion event, the first race on the card at the festival meeting, highlight of the British jumping season.
Bookmakers have installed him an 11 to 10 on favourite, with odds of 6 to 1 against his nearest rival.
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Press, Volume CXVI, Issue 34105, 18 March 1976, Page 9
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