Strong North Island teams arriving today
J. J. BOYLE
The Foxton trainer Paddy Busuttin, who had 18 successes on Riccarton last season, will be back today with another strong team for the New Zealand Cup carnival. His stable runners on Saturday will include Princess Regal in the Wrightson One Thousand Guineas and Belfe in the Benson and Hedges Gold Cup. Belfe is owned by a syndicate headed by Robert Sangster, and goes into the Benson and Hedges with a record of a win, two seconds, and a third in her last four starts.
Belfe was bred in England and won over two
miles there before she was brought to New Zealand. Other Busuttin-trained acceptors for Saturday include the two-year-old Sierra Sand, a half-sister by Avon Valley to the smart performer, Page Boy. Princess Regal won the corresponding race for the stable last year. The Awapuni trainer Noel Eales, was heartened yesterday by news of the arrival of rain at Riccarton. Eales will arrive today with his weight-for-age star. Commissionaire, his Benson and Hedges Gold Cup hopeful, Manchu; last season’s
Great Northern Oaks winner, Sweet Elm; and another four-year-old in Wellson. The Canterbury Gold Cup might be Commissionaire’s only race at the Cup meeting, but if there is a prospect of easy footing the star of the Eales team might run in the Churchill Stakes on the second day. Manchu and Commissionaire galloped in company on the plough at Awapuni yesterday. Manchu was shading Commissionaire, which was not ridden out, at the end of 1200 m in Imin 18.65, the last 600 m easily in 40.65. Manchu is very fit and in spite of his 57kg he will take beating in
the Benson and Hedges Gold Cup. Commissionaire has thrived since running second in the Harcourt Stakes, at Trentham and he should be untroubled to repeat last year’s success in the Canterbury Gold Cup. Silver Elm and Wellson covered 1000 m impressively in Imin 05s, the last 600 m in 40s. They finished together. Silver Elm was far from disgraced at Trentham and will be right at her best for the Lion Brown on Saturday. Wellson could be one race short of his best, though he is a smart galloper which could still win the Strowan Handicap. Gus Clutterbuck will ride him.
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