THE NEW ZEALAND CUP.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume I, Issue 8, 20 September 1890, Page 3

THE NEW ZEALAND CUP.

I By

Nordenfeldt

Some of the New Zealand Cup candidates have already sported silk this season with success, At the Geraldine Racing Club’s Spring Meeting on Sept- 9th and 10th, a three-yeaE-pld figured very prominently, I refer to M r - P. Butler’s colt Bay King, by Cadogap out qf Major Mair’s Corcyra. The colt started in the Geraldine Cup of a mile and a half, in which he was weighted at 6st ylb, but was up? at>le to get closer than second, within half a length of Prime Warden, a three-ypar-ojd full brother to Sultan, that carried 7§t. Bay Kjng beat four others, including the Cup candidate Catamount, weighted at 7st izlb. The race was run in the good time of zinip, 4psecs. The Auckland brpd colt was more successful later in the afternoon, when he took the Flying Handicap of six furlongs, in which he was handicapped at 6st 1 zlb, from nine others. (On the following day he followed up this victory by another in the Geraldine facing Clpb Handicap of a mile, beating three others. He carried 7st 21b, and won in a canter by four lengths, in jmin. 46&secs. Bay King has the featherweight of 6st. to carry in phe New jZqalapd Cup. Another horse whose recpnt rupning would point to his bejng a very dangerbus candidate in tjie race under consideration js the (five-year-ojd horse Wolverine. He the Rouble at the Dunedip Hunt Club’s M t eet T ing, Kensington Handicap and Tplegraplj Handipap. In the former event he carried Bst 121 b, and ran the ten furlongs in zmin. 1 anb jn thq latter he put up 9St and yvpp just as easily. The course on Jfiis occasion wa? a mile and a distance, and Wplverine got over it in zmin. 3|jSecs. .Among the seyen horses that finished behind him was the threeryepyrold Gpp Pique, who did not rup, prominently. Wolverjne is weighted in the Cup at ,6st. 1 ilb.-r-undopbtedly a stone less than he was entitled to—and Pique has 6st. 51b. Another Cup candidate pjr.ove,d vjctjpripus at the same meeting, for Mr. Stevenson’s three? year-old Mariner, by Lee, won the Welter Handicap of a mile, beating ten others. Mariner carried Sst. slb., and got over the mile ip imi.p. 4g£secs. He is in the dangerous “Opcident” stable, and js handicapped in the Cup at 6st.