JUBILEE CUP FIELD

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 121, 25 May 1933, Page 8

JUBILEE CUP FIELD

PROBLEM AT WOODVILLE

COPPER • KING'S PROSPECTS

The acceptance for the Woodville Jubilee Cup, to be. run on Saturday, is notable for the wealth of recent winning form engaged; and the fancy of investors j is likely to take a wide range. Deleting iko last three (My Own, Princess Bell, and Cape Fair) of the prospective runners, whose recent efforts have been on a definitely inferior plane, it is not easy even to name the likely favourite, let alono the possible winner.' One who must be accorded a first-rate-chance of success, however, is the tracktrained three-year-old Copper King, who made quite .useful opposition look very cheap iv winning the open mile and a nuarter handicap at Marton recently. After going up to Juggle on the turn in that race he came right away in the straight and was being eased up several lengths ahead of Habit, Juggle, and Chopin at tho post. A repetition oLthat performance, and he will have the others thinking hard, at the finish on Saturday. His 7.13 should not worry him unduly. CHOPIN AND JUGGLE' Chopin and Juggle will again be ranged against him. Chopin has .had a run oi minor plaeee lately, but his. two seconds at Wanganui last week were quite attractive and'suggested that another turn might not be far away. He did not appear to be handled to the best advantage at Marton, and with 9.0 on Saturday he will be meeting Copper king at 71b better terras, a , difference; however, that looks still too big. Juggle, after .a turn at hurdling, returned to the flat to win opeu handicaps at Pahiatua, Feilding, Iselson, and Blenheim, but except at 1-eliding the opposition was poor. Moreover, she meets Copper King at 31b worse terms than at Marton, bo the book does not give her a particularly bright chance ot sueL(?Then there are Takakua, Lucky Alice, and Courtyard, all double winners m their last two appearances. Takakua. put up two fine performances among the best class hacks at Feilding, and his scalps included Fairway on the first day and Copper King on the second day, both, these horses filling the role ot runner-up. Now at 5.6 ho meets Copper King at 41b better than their ■ Feilding difference, but he has not raced since, whereas Copper ■ King was produced and scored his easy victory at Marton. Fairway was making his return to racing at Feilding, and as he has won twice and been second once in three starts since he should measure up to Takakua on Saturday at 21b better terms than at Feii cling, especially as the long Woodville straight is likely to' serve hint quite as well'as his Feilding victor. MATTER OF WEIGHT. : Lucky Alice was successful in one start at Wairarapa at Easter, and in her next start she won the Connolly Handicap atWauganui last Saturday very comfortably from Chopin and View Halloo. With 8.4 she is now meeting Chopra vat 121b. worse than their Wanganui difference,. so it looks as if Chopin for one may now account for her. Still she is very well and she cannot, bo left out of, b the final count, as she appeared to bo doing better than Chopin at tho end of last Saturday's race. ■' . ~'. -.■\ :. ■. •■.. ■-. ",. Courtyard's two latest wins were at the Wairarapa Meeting at Easter and at the Hawke's Bay Meeting. a week latery' both times over a mile among the hacks. He carried 9.5 and won easily at Hastings, but with 8.3 in open company at Woodville he does not seem to have had any of the best of the argument with the handicapper, especially when contrasted] with Copper King, Fairway, and Beacon Fire, who are weighted beneath him. There remains Beacon Fire, who was first tried out beyond a mile at Wanganui last week and finished a good third to View Halloo and Chopin. On the other day he returned to the sprint course to finish second to Curie, beaten by half a head; Without a trial at one and a

Hunter miles jet, he can Imdh be il lowed quite so likcl> prospects as Coppci Kin,; nnd Piirwaj, with whom he sliaus the 7 13 m-uk It is thus tloii wlnt an uin ul k, cent foim bclteis will hive to silt on S it uidaj, and in anahsis ol the weights &o<-> not ofliH Jiiy elcn peispcctnn In the abF,pncc of othoi iaclors, and nssumin o that tlm is the iicl selected ioi 1 m« i> and 1 ikAui, who each ln\e auothci en the sitcbt reliance ma> be placed in Coppei King, Takakua, and I uiwav