CUP DAY AT RICCARTON

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 110, 5 November 1937, Page 13

CUP DAY AT RICCARTON

EVEN FIELD FOR STAYERS' TEST

CERNE ABBAS LIKELY TO BE FAVOURITE

Cup carnival at Christchurch,' embracing four days' galloping and three days' trotting, is the high light of the sporting calendar in the Dominion, and this year's opening will take place tomorrow, when the Canterbury Jockey Club's Metropolitan Meeting will be commenced at Riccarton. A record crowd of visitors for recent years is expected to be in Christchurch for the week, and both the Jockey Club, and the Trotting Club anticipate fixtures comparable with the best years of the past. , The fields listed for tomorrow's racing are well up to standard in the leading events, particularly in the Cup, though the presence of either Silver Ring or Cuddle would have added the touch of quality. The class is also good in the Stewards', though the field has somewhat inexplicably declined in point of numbers to one of the smallest that has ever accepted for the race, The hack quality in the Spring Plate would fit any ordinary metropolitan open event, and the other races have drawn satisfactory cards. ■ The meeting will be continued on Monday, when the New Zealand Derby will be the principal item, and the Criterion Handicap, seven furlongs, and the Fendalton Handicap, 1$ miles, the leading open events. Wednesday will be Oaks Day; and the Metropolitan Handicap, 1£ miles, will be decided on the final .day, tomorrow week; ; / ::..;■ » ■ :■.''. ..-. ' . . ■■'..■