DEFAULTER’S WEIGHT.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 36, 11 January 1939, Page 10

DEFAULTER’S WEIGHT.

WELLINGTON CUP PROSPECTS. (By “Spectator.”) Defaulter has been rated very highly in being allotted 8.11, or 111 b above weight-for-age, in the Wellington Cup. which few three-year-olds have won. The last was Rapine, carrying 7.12, in 1923. Defaulter is receiving 101 b from Royal Chief and 41b each from Catalogue and Wild Chase. Out of Hacks. Poland’s success in the Grey Handicap at Ellerslic put him out of hacks, and he may contest the Cup at Thames. Five Awapuni Horses. Five Awapuni horses have been nominated for the Wellington Cup. They are Catalogue, Quadroon, The Bigot, Corroboree, and Dainty Sue.

Recruits to Hurdling. Electric Spear. Love in Idleness, Galloping Acre and Winder ess, who may have his first start over battens at the Thames meeting, are four hurdling recruits being schooled at Ellerslic. Plans for Seabiscuit. Scabiscuit, who beat War Admiral in a match race for £SOOO at Pimlico, Maryland, is to be given a long rest. lie may not race again until March, when he will contest the Santa Anita Handicap at Los Angeles. A Promising Jumper.

Recollection has had three starts over hurdles, and won the last two so impressively at Invercargill as to suggest that he will develop into the best class as a juniper. Ife was bred at Stonyhursfc and is by Polazel from Retrospect, dam of Great Memory and Happy Memory, by Autumnus from Telescope, by Martian. Polazel is the sire of that good jumper Brigadore. Maxam in Work.

Maxam, who has been on the easy list since racing last November, is again in work, and hits been nominated at the Thames meeting. A very speedy filly, Maxain has been troubled with soreness, and the easing of track conditions would materially assist her present preparation. Round Up’s Earnings.

Round Up’s victory in the A.R.C. Handicap at Kllerslie was a meritorious one, and the Lord Quex gelding ranks as the best northern handicapper seen for some considerable tim?*. Unluckily beaten in the Auckland Cup, his record may have been even better, but since being purchased by Mr T. lmpey and trained at Takanini bv F. Smith, he has won over £4OOO, a total that has been exceeded only once by 'J’akanini-trained horses since the track was established, this being that fine filly Eaglet, who won in all over £6OOO. Possibly the two hard races earlier in the meeting affected Round Up in the Clifford Plate, as he was beaten some distance from the post.