Fountaincourt, McGinty doubtful
NZPA staff correspondent Sydney The top New Zealand hopes for the $275,000 W. S. Cox Plate tomorrow, Fountaincourt and McGinty, were yesterday listed as doubtful starters for what has been billed the weight-for-age championship. Both horses will be scratched unless there is a dramatic change in the condition of the Moonee Valley track. That would leave the
sprinter, Fine Offer, and the mudlark, Deb’s Mate, to carry New Zealand’s hopes. Fountaincourt’s trainer, Cyril Pfefferle, said that the way the track looked yesterday, Fountaincourt would not start.
“I’m not going to put him on a track like that, it’s just not worth it and he wouldn’t handle it,” Pfefferle said. For McGinty, the problem with the track is the same according to reports.
The little stayer showed in a morning gallop on Tuesday that he could not handle the wet, when Emancipation and Strawberry Road showed him up in an exhibition trial.
His jockey, Bobby Vance, told reporters at Flemington yesterday morning: “He didn’t handle the track at all when he galloped there and would be no hope the way it looks like being on Saturday."
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