Cup weight ‘unreal’
By J. J. BOYLE “For a horse that has won only one class one handicap 55kg in a race like the Sydney Cup is unreal,” Prancer’s Cambridge trainer said yesterday. Cleaver said he could not have anticipated that Prancer would get the same weight as Lefroy. “And when you compare it with the weights of all those around him like Shivaree, Arwon, and Big Gamble, and those below him like Dulcify and Northfleet we feel just a bit sick about it.
“I expected him to get 53kg at most,” Carter said. “But what do you do when you have a horse good enough to make the trip? You can only say we are still thinking about it,” he said. Prancer is provisionally booked to travel to Sydney on March 29 with Iluvme and the Haweratrained Sweet Someone. Mr and Mrs Gordon Pollock’s five-year-old is in the field for the $BOOO Manawatu Autumn Handicap at Awapuni on Saturday. David Peake will ride him again.
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