Top Cup fancies in Mackinnon Stakes
NZPA staff correspondent Sydney The top four in Melbourne Cup betting — Kingston Town, Koiro Trelay, No Peer and Our Paddy Boy — will run in the $35,000 L.K.S. Mackinnon Stakes (2000 m at Flemington on Saturday, the traditional lead-up race to the Melbourne Cup. Others likely to be in the Mackinnon field include the 1978 Cup winner, Arwon. 1979 Cup winner, Hyperno, Flashing Light, fifth to Silver Bounty in the 2400 m Caulfield Cup, and possibly Belmura Lad. The entries will make the weight-for-age race one of the top races of the Melbourne Cup carnival. Yesterday morning Koiro Trelay worked well over 1600 m on the course proper at Flemington.
The New Zealander, rated one of the best stayers to come across the Tasman, was ridden by his regular jockey, Phillip Smith, who arrived in Melbourne, on Monday. “He worked well and felt very good this morning,’’ said Smith. “He ran the first 600 m in very fast time and his work showed he, has improved a lot since Saturday.” However, Tommy Smith, trainer of Kingston Town, has not been impressed. “I thought his run on Saturday was awful,” he said of Koiro Trelay’s eighth in the Cox Plate. “Koiro Trelay hasn't done anything in his work to suggest that he could win a Melbourne Cup,” he said after watching the six-year-old at work yesterday. The Sydney Cup winner,
Our Paddy Boy, will be hard for Kingston Town to beat, according to his trainer, Colin Hayes. “I didn't race Our Paddy Boy in the Cox Plate las"t Saturday because I knew it would be hopeless to try and beat Kingston Town under weight-for-age,” he said. "But Kingston Town will' find it very hard to beat Our Paddy Boy in the Cup as my horse is a class two-miler," said Hayes. Another of his Cup hopes. Find the Gold, will race in the $30,500 Dalgety (2500 m to try to qualify for a start in Tuesday’s $310,000 race. Find the Gold needs to finish in the first four to gain enough prize money to meet the qualifying conditions.
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