THE BRABAZON

NZ Truth, Issue 1079, 29 July 1926, Page 11

THE BRABAZON

Lead For Winter Cup The winner of the Brabazon Handicap at the Hunt meeting at Riccarton on Saturday can be depended upon to run prominently m the Winter Cup. ' MOST of the competitors on Saturday claim an engagement m the big mile race, and the spin over seven furlongs just puts them m nice trim for the .Winter Cup, run ten days later. '■•■'• / . For the last three years the -winner , of the Brabazon has figured prominently m the Winter Cup. In 1923 Boadicea won the Brabazon arid then ran second m the Cup, befng defeated by Sunny Loch, which ran unplaced when Boadicea won. The following year Broadwood won the seven-furlong race, and then filled second berth to Soliform m the Winter Cup, while last year Sun Up repeated the performance, his vanquisher being Kuhip. ■•■■., Strange to say neither Soliform nor Kuhio ran m the Brabazon. Quite a number of Winter Cup candidates were not entered for the Brabazon this year, and among this number are the well fancied Indian Sage, Kilbronsyth, Civility and Olympic. ■■■■■•■•. Wonder if history will repeat it- . self m this year's Winter Cup? GOES TO THE STUD THE English-bred Lapidary, by Black Jester-Lauda, which got on the winning list m this country, is to be tried at the stud up north. He showed some . great speed m private. Though he did not always reproduce that speed m. his race, he may make good as a sire. iiin.iiiiiiiiiniiiiiiuiimiiiiiiiiiiiimimiiHniuiuuiiiiii<mimiiuiiiiiHunr>iiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiinniiiinuiiin