THE WELLINGTON CUP.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVII, Issue 985, 21 January 1909, Page 6

THE WELLINGTON CUP.

The Wellington Cup was run for at Trentham yesterday, and the result must have been something in the nature of a surprise. The splendid field of nineteen lined up at the barrier, a result that must have been particularly pleasing to Mr. Pollock, the club’s handicapper. So far as Aucklanders were concerned, the issue was considered to be largely between All Red, Husbandman, and Sir Frisco, although Sir George Clifford’s crack three-year-old had gone somewhat out of favour owing to some rather indifferent gallops on the training track. Ikon was another who had a good many supporters, but the actual winner was not fancied locally at all. This proved to be one of the light weights in Blue Ribbon, who, coming with a fine run at the finish, beat Muskerry by a neck after a very exciting finish, with Husbandman in third place. The winner is a four-year-old chestnut mare by the Auckland-bred stallion Bluejacket from Yattaghan, by. Nordenfeldt—Yattacy. by Yattendon —Ecstacy. by The Marquis—Lady Exeter, by New Warrior. Last season Blue Ribbon started on eight occasions, her solitary victory being in the Wakanui Handicap at the Ashburton autumn meeting.