AUCKLAND PACERS

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 283, 26 August 1944, Page 9

AUCKLAND PACERS

Shipped To Wellington Dominion Special Service. AUCKLAND, August 25. Two pacers Kewpie's Jewel and Modern Jewel were shipped to Wellington yesterday to compete at the Wellington Trotting Club's meeting on September 9. Desert Lad and Nelson Potts who were also booked through did not make the trip. It is expected tzikt Hillcrest will be able to get a passage next week. Kewpie's Jewel surprised at the Auckland meeting by beating War Guard and Hillcrest In the August Handicap. The daughter of Jewel Pointer and Kewpie she has developed into a solid type and revels in soft .ground. Handicapped at 3J25, she won iii 3.30, and should find the limit on the Sir Thomas Wilford Handicap at Trentham suitable.

Hillcrest, who is also at home on yielding turf, ran 3.27 4-5 off 3.22 and will be nicely placed at Treutham. • He was also third in the Takanini Handicap in 2.43 off 2.47.

Gold Cup Contest. The 1944 substitute race for the Ascot Gold Cup, decided over two miles and a quarter, was run at Newmarket on Wednesday, July 5, and was won by Umiddad, it four-year-old half-brother by Dastur to Airway, a recent importation from England who is now at service at Mr. C. S. Donald’s Belfast stud. The keenest interest was created throughout England in the prospective meeting of Persian Gulf and Umiddad in the Gold Cup. Earlier in the season, Umiddad, in receipt of 41b., defeated Persian Gulf by a neck in tlie Thoruey Stakes, one mile and three-quar-ters, but Persian Gulf handsomely avenged that defeat when the pair met again at level weights in the Coronation Cup, one mile and a half. Their third meeting in the Gold Cup was regarded as the decisive issue in four-year-old staying supremacy for the season, but unfortunately Persan Gulf broke down in training a week before the race. Umiddad won by a head from Bright Lady, a six-year-old mare by April the Fifth and regarded as the best stayer of her sex in England this season. She had won four times previously, on three occasions over two miles. Umiddad is raced by his breeder, the Aga Khan.