Kingston Town back in work

Press, 16 May 1981, Page 23

Kingston Town back in work

NZPA Sydney Kingston Town, Australia’s greatest stakes winning galloper, has been cleared to go back into training. His breeder and senior part-owner, Mr David Hains, said there was every chance the champion would be prepared for the Melbourne Cup provided he is fairly treated by the V.R.C. handicapper. “He will, follow much the same pattern as last year,” Mr Hains said from Melbourne. “I am not about to start speculating about what he might get, but I think Hyperno, for instance, would have to get more weight,” Mr Hains said.

Kingston Town, according to a leading Sydney vet, Mr Percy Sykes, is fitter now

than at any time since he injured his off foreleg in the Victoria Derby in the spring of 1979.

“Kingston Town will be put into light work immediately at tne stud. He will undergo preparatory training for five or six weeks before going back to Tom Smith at Randwick,” Mr Hains said. Kingston Town, which has amassed $911,165 (NZ51,116,300) in a career embracing 24 starts for 18 wins, has not started since he won the W.S. Cox Plate at Moonee Valley last. October;

, The gelding paid a heavy price for that first win in Melbourne. He damaged the suspensory ligament in his off foreleg, an injury which Mr Hains said dated back to the Derby 12 months before.