Ming Dynasty Cummings’s runner in Cox Plate

Press, 24 October 1980, Page 2 (Supplement)

Ming Dynasty Cummings’s runner in Cox Plate

From

J. J. Boyle Melbourne

The Caulfield Cup winner,! Ming Dynasty, will run for ! the powerful Bart Cummings; stable in the 5200.000 Cox! Plate at Moonee Valley to-1 morrow. But if his stable-! mate. Belmura Lad, had; escaped the ballot for the; wight-for-age race the grey; would have been rested. Belmura Lad was one ofsix horses balloted out of; the Cox Plate and a dis-; appointed Cummings will! now keep him for the! George Adams Handicap at the Victoria Racing Club’s' Cup meeting. , Cummings had planned to, scratch Ming Dynasty from the Cox Plate if Belmura Lad had been assured of a start. Midge Didham will again partner Ming Dynasty. My Blue Denim will bring a lot of fresh interest to bear on the Cox Plate, which will be her first race on her

(present Australian campaign. I One of the stars of Dave 1 O’Sullivan’s Matamata i stable. My Blue Denim I;struck form quickly in New i [Zealand "his spring and she J is third favourite for the ’(Melbourne Cup at 8-to-one .{in a market published ijyesterday. ,! My Blue Denim might be da better handicap than a I weight-for-age prospect, but ■I horses of real weight-for-age J class are not thick on the [ground in Australia this (spring and last season’s [Auckland Cup winner might : force her way into the finish ! (tomorrow. Kingston Town will be! ‘trying to break a Melbourne! i hoodoo in the Cox Plate. Success has eluded him in five previous starts in Melbourne. but hopes in the Tommy Smith camp were buoyant after the four-year-old galloped at Moonee Valley yesterday morning. “That was the real Kingston Town” Malcolm John-

ston remarked after the gelding sprinted 1200 m in Imin. 21s, the last 400 m in 255. Tommy Smith and Johnston believe Kingston Town has at last got into the way ;of galloping “on the other leg,” on the left-handed style of going in Melbourne. If however, there is still a lack of confidence reflected in Kingston Town’s race performance there will be three or four others with the ability to capitalise on the situation. 1 Torbek for one. This coun-try-trained New Zealand bred has assembled a formidable string -of wins, the' Toorak Handicap for one.! and he offers the New Zealand jockey. Maurice Campbell, a chance of the most rewarding success of his career.

Another New Zealand-bred right in the boom is the three-year-old Sir Tristram colt, Sovriegn Red, winner of the Caulfield Guineas fori

the powerful Geoff Murphy stable. Yir Tiz, the only three-year-old filly in the field came in for more attention when she galloped well yesterday. One of the stars of New Zealand two-year-old racing Hast season, Yir Tiz yesterday appeared at Flemington to run 12C?m, 21m out on the steeplechase grass in Imin. 21.755, the last 400 m in 265. Mark Rilev will ride Yir Tiz. Bob Skelton will ride Our Paddy Boy, another three-yea-o!d bought in New Zealand this y —. 5 p.m.—

w S. COX PLATE $200,000; weight-for-ace; 2050m. 1 2401 Ming Dynasty i4> 59.0 2 1111 Torbek i3) 59.0 3 3313 Waitangirua (I2i 59.0 4 2352 Family of Man ill 59.0 1123 Kingston Town (7) 57.0 6 21)3 Prince Ruling <9> 57.0 7 9594 Tolhurst (10) 57.0 8 8712 My Blue Denim 151 56.5 9 1731 Sovereign Red (21 48.5 10 1210 Glenson (11) 48.5 11 3164 Our Paddy Boy (131 48.5 12 2230 Palaban (6> 48.5 13 8461 Tasman (8) 48.5 14 624 Ylr Tix (14) 46.0