Gold Cup

Press, 21 March 1981, Page 22

Gold Cup

Special correspondent Wellington A week ago at Trentham The Twinkle beat Mun Lee in a quite spectacular finish to the Penfolds Chardon Mile. This, afternoon Mun Lee gets a chance in the Awapuni Gold Cup to turn the tables but it is far from being a two way contest. Add to Mun Lee and The Twinkle, ’’Speculation, Pays Anne, Daisy, Koiro Trelay, and Alice arid the class of the .-company becomes obvious.;:;'". " The clip will be run over 2000 m as opposed to 1600 m at Trentham last-week. Mun Lee is no stranger to 2000 m. Before Trentham she was an unlucky, fourth in the Air New Zealand Stakes and then came her great effort to get second a week ago. Most of The Twinkle’s J

success this season has come at 1.600 m. But she has tried 1800 m and last November was fourth in the 2000 m Canterbury Gold Cup. On the way she' ran but the Penfolds there - seems little doubt , that she will manage the. Awapunl Gold Cup distance. . ; - Back to 2000 m Speculation, on the left-handed track,- is going to take all sorts of beating. He finished very well to get fourth in the- Penfolds, after anything but a clear passage when it mattered most. He failed in the Air New Zealand Stakes, but the time before could not have been more gallant in winning the Da'getv International at Te Rapa, over 2000 m. Pays Anne might have been unlucky with all her placings this season. But she won the Challenge Stakes at Awapunl last December