Hilarious Guest to stay in North Island

Press, 10 February 1983, Page 20

Hilarious Guest to stay in North Island

Special correspondent Auckland Hilarious Guest has joined the growing number of South Island horses who will stay in "the north after the Auckland Trotting Cup on Saturday evening. | Her owner-trainer, Maurice Vermeulen, of Rangiora, said yesterday she would continue to be quartered at Dr 1 Luk Chin’s property at Hamilton and that his daughter, Karina, aged 21, would come north to attend her.

Armalight. Mai Mai, and i Enterprise are among other southerners not going home until after the Benson and 1 Hedges-sponsored Inter- I Dominion series next month. I Vermeulen said he was planning to run Hilarious • I Guest in the Cambridge classic tomorrow week. I This is a race for four- i year-olds over 2200 m from a mobile start. Mai Mai and i Enterprise have also been s entered. Owen Purdon has been 1 named as Hilarious Guest’s <

driver in Saturday's big race. She was driven by Peter VVolfenden when she won the Radio Hauraki “10,000” Stakes on the first night of the meeting last Saturday. Wolfenden promised Brent Smith, the owner-trainer of Armalight, he would drive his mare on her current northern campaign. Vermeulen said Hilarious Guest has done “famously” since she won last Saturday. He worked her 3200 m at Dr Chin’s track on Tuesday, allowing her full rein only

from the 800 m. She reeled off this section in Imin Is. The fact that Hilarious guest at present has a seasonal complaint is not worrying Vermeulen. “She came on just before last Saturday's race and it made no difference,” he said. “And she was also in season when she won The Messenger.” Hilarious Guest won the Radio Hauraki "10,000" Stakes by five lengths and The Messenger by three lengths.