AUCKLAND CUP

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 521, 26 November 1928, Page 10

AUCKLAND CUP

READERS’ LISTS OF UNOFFICIAL HANDICAPS Tho Auckland Cup is to be run at iUlerslie on Wednesday, December 26, Boxing Day, and the handicaps are due next Monday, after the two days' racing at Takapuna. Readers’ attempts to anticipate the (Official weight adjuster’s view’s continue to hold some interest among the sporting fraternity, as is shown by the many lists sent into the Sun office. Indeed, so many are they that a halt has had to be called, and those lists now in

hand will b© published to-day and tomorrow, which will be the final lot. One of to-day’s lists is the first to place Rapier on top with 9.8, a couple of pounds above Star Stranger, the contributor apparently having taken into consideration the fact that Rapier ran second in the New Zealand Cup with 9.0, and therefore assumes that the Southerner is a better horse at two miles than Star Stranger. However, he rather discounts this interesting start-off by giving Count Cavour 7.9 (or 241 b less than ho ran second with last year), and thereby ranks the Count as a has been. To-day’s lists hail from the following:—A, from “Clive” (Remuera Road); B, from W.M.S. (Archhill); C, from L.G.A. (Symonds Street); D, from C.B. (Papakura); E, from Timi (Papakura); and F, from F.H. (Waihi).

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