SOUTHERN VIEWPOINT

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 10, 13 January 1933, Page 4

SOUTHERN VIEWPOINT

GOLD TRAIL FAVOURED

As weight is t just.as heavy under the weight-for-age scale as in a handicap, Gold Trail seems to be the key of the situation in the Wellington Cup, says the Dunedin writer, "Sentinel." . Gold Trail failed in the Auckland Cup, but finished a« creditable third in the Great Northern Derby to Silver Scorn and La Modei;ne, who have high credentials in the way of racing merit: She won the Clifford Plate with 7.13, beating Antique (9.3J and Concentrate (9.3), in addition to others under the weight-for-age scale. It was a meritorious performance, as she won in 2miii 5 4-ssec,' and Ou the same day Great Star won the Grandstand Handicap with 8.3 in 2min '6 4-ssec, Jalous (5.5) being a lencth away, with Red Sun (7.11). unplaced, Wellington Cup Gold Trail, on the Clifford Plate poundage, meets Antique on 21b; better terms and Concentrate on the same terms over an extra quarter of a mile. She stayed a.good mile and a half in the Great, Korthern Derby, and put up the smartest gallop recorded over a; niile and a quarter during the Auckland Sleeting; . A filly should be better in January than in December, and she therefore reads: better in the Wellington Cup ; than Antique and Concentrate. ' ;Jaloux at 7.U' looks niore' likely-to imprbye : than,.either , Antique .and' Concentrate in point of racing condition, and 'he should beat them ■- on the'v form :in the Summer; Cup.; 'Antique won- the Summer Cup with 9:1, ,w;th Concentrate (9.4) a neck away..and,Jaloux (8.2): a length further back in '2mili :6see.' Jaloux meets Antique, at Trentham -, on Sib and Concentrate on 6)b-better terms, and this should prove-more than sufficient to 'turn things in; his favour.;-. -. • -:•■■■ ;, ;;; : Gold.Trail '. and Jalous'-- thus;, seem to dominate the. situation at present, and a retention of f6rm must make them, dangerous •; at Trentham ' next Thursday, the writer^concludes. :'■ 'r;■:■ :■• -.• ■',