DECLARATION OF WEIGHTS

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22900, 1 December 1937, Page 11

DECLARATION OF WEIGHTS

CUDDLE AND PAPER SLIPPER

,K U Tni™ v* A^' and RadnS Club*, summer Meeting be held at Ellershe on December 27 and 29 and January I and 3 w.ll be stimulated by the deelaration of the weights for the Auckl .land Cup and Ra,Way Hand,cap. The Auckland Cup, two miles the nchest stake m the Dominion, and the Railway Handicap, six furlongs form one of the most important and popular racing doubles, in New Zealand and usually attract the best stayers and ' sprinters. ' r ride ,K° Q« li,Ce i" th t A o Ck , land Cup has becn to Cuddle with 9.8, and m the Radway Handicap to Paper Slipper With 9.3 Cuddle is the outstanding stayer in New Zealand and 7IT going well she will attempt to equal the feat of Nelson in winning the Auckland Cup three years in succession. She won in 1935 with 9.0 and last year with 9.3, and in view of her recent victory in the Canterbury Cup and her second with 9.12 to Argentic in the Metropolitan Handicap, the task of winning again might not be beyond her, even though she has reached her ninth year, an age at which most mares have gone well past their best. The Railway Handicap top-weight Paper Slipper is an improved* four-year-old, and at his last start he won brilliantly over , six furlongs at Riccarton with 8.12 in 1.1 1 1-5. /