Mares favoured for cup at Wellington tonight

Press, 13 January 1982, Page 20

Mares favoured for cup at Wellington tonight

Special correspondent Wellington Bonnie’s Chance broke a 10- year drought for mares in the Wellington Cup with her win last year. This evening Sweet Jessica and Delightful Lady, both mares, look set to fight out the finish of the §20.000 feature. Sweet Jessica is a stablemate of last year's cup winner Bonnie’s Chance. She is a five-year-old and has only a C 8 assessment. On the other hand Delightful Lady’s record speaks for itself. She is in her last season of racing and has a record second to none when compared with any other in commission.

Sweet Jessica is in fine form at present. She was second in her last two starts, the first when equal second behind Dundas in the Ashburton Cup. the latter when distanced by Bonnie’s Chance in the New Zealand Standardbred Breeders' Stakes at Addington on New Years Dav.

Transport problems prevented Sweet Jessica from a first night start, but those problems have been solved and she arrived in Wellington yesterday afternoon. While she has age on her side. Sweet Jessica may have to play second fiddle "to the brilliant black Auckland mare Delightful Lady. Delightful Lady weakened over the last 200 m in Saturday's Innes Schweppes Handicap. That run could have only improved her and she looks capable of giving most of her rivals a start of 25m and beating them. Cyllarus’s front-running tactics won him the Innes Schweppes Handicap on Saturday. It is however, doubtful if he will be allowed to

set such an easy pace this evening. His rivals on Saturday took the chance that they could outsprint him — they lost — and it would be a brave man that would adopt similar tactics this evening. Calm Flight, along with Sweet Jessica, is a newcomer to the meeting. Six starts back Calm Flight beat a stronger field than this in the Rondel Handicap at Alexandra Park. His trainer and driver. John MacQuibban, was not happy with the 10m handicap his horse received in the cup. but left early yesterday morning enroute for Hutt Park.

Greg Robinson and El Regale filled the minor placings behind Cyllarus on Saturday. Neither damaged their prospects for this evening’s race with those efforts and a win by either would not come as a surprise. Local stables won one race on the opening night of the meeting and they could land another this evening with

Arania Scott, a contender for the Lion Breweries Pace, second leg of the T.A.B. double. Arania Scott has won two of his last five races and was a fine fourth behind Sugar Ray Robinson in the corresponding race on Saturday. He was left in the wake of Sugar Ray Robinson when he split the field with 700 m to run but once wound up in the last 500 m put in a spirited run to take fourth spot. Last Fame. Tucson and Red Sea look his main dangers. Race 5 8.5

T.A.B. TREBLE T.A.B. QUINELLA ROBALAN PACE $2980; C2; mobile; 2000m 1 0922 Adios Posy 1 It 2 8068 Watbro King 2 It 3 4215 Sir Mark 3 It 4 897 Scottish Division • 1 It 5 4341 Meesha 5 It 6 0013 Berry Scott 6 It 7 3034 Rock Folly 7 It 8 6775 Tina Scott UR it Race 6 T.A.B. DOUBLE T.A.B. QUINELLA WELLINGTON CUP $20,000; OC; 2400m 8.40 1 4122 Sweet Jessica 1 It 2 0301 Cyllarus 2 It 3 3353 El Regale 3 It 4 0668 Glen Moria 4 it 5 3962 Greg Robinson 5 It 6 0065 Crowbar 6 It 8 8348 Calm Flight 1 10 9 7414 Delightful Lady 1 25 Scratched; Royal Decision. Race 7 9.10 T.A.B. TREBLE ARMOURGUARD PAYROLL HANDICAP $3350; C3: trotters; 2400m I 26 Del Miller 1 It 3 1595 Stormey 1 10 4 7407 Master Brett 2 10 5 6059 Hercules Evander 3 10 6 5362 Young Cole 4 10

~ 5265 Alison Command 1 8 0711 Jenover 2 9 9743 Red Poplar 1 Scratched: Brave Charles. 20 20 30 Race 8 9.40 T.A.B. DOUBLE LION BREWERIES RESTRICTED FREE-FOR-ALL $4000: C3 and C4: mobile: 2906m 1 3522 Lasting Fame 1 It 2 5648 Jet Set Magazine 2 It 3 9311 Van Rhet 3 It 4 4311 Tucson 4 It 5 0019 Princess Unique 5 It 6 0026 Nada Hanover 6 It 7 1014 Arnia Scott 7 It 8 9877 Coppermine 8 It 9 9033 Red Sea 9 It 10 4019 Roseland Patron 10 It Race 10 10.40 T.A.B. TREBLE T.A.B. QUINELLA MCWILLIAMS WINE PACE $2590: Cl; mobile; 2400m 1 0697 Roydon Heath 1 it 2 2218 Bonnie Skipper 2 It 3 1000 Takbaa 3 It 4 0400 Gainsborough 4 It 5 4213 Smackwater Jack 5 It 6 676 Rouxdon 6 It 7 7333 Tuatahi Dream 7 It 8 2431 High Card 8 It 9 4021 Helen Del 9 it 10 9461 Adidas Rainbow 10 it 11 4235 Smokey Lobell 11 It 12 6715 I'm Certain 12 It 13 04 Robin Mac 13 It 14 0610 I'm A Trooper 14 II 15 31 Lover's Lane 15 It 16 1376 Colossus Bay 16 Lt 17 3376 Black Speed 17 It 18 0065 Nippy Hanover 18 it Emergencies: Black Speed. Roydon Heath. Colossus Bay. Gainsborough. Lover's Lane.