RACING NEWS & VIEWS

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 23, 2 May 1947, Page 6

RACING NEWS & VIEWS

Should Stay Well The Gisborne bred King’s Ransom a recent winner at Ellerslie and Hawke’s Bay, is bred on staying lines that should denote a stayer. He is by Lang Bian from Quaint by Psychology from Oddmint by Catmint from Bleriot by Soult from Elf by Dreadnought. With the blending of the Musket, St. Simon and Tracery lines King’s Ransom should be a front ranker of the N.Z. turf. Four Prizes There will be four prizes in every event at the Waikato meeting on May 10 and 17. If the riders are duly apprised of this fact, there should be a number of closely fought out finishes.

£25,000 Empire Gold Cup The first Empire Gold Cup of £25,000 is to be run late this year at Jamaica Park, New York. In the following two years it is proposed to run it in England and then in France. It would appear that for some time, yet racing is to be in the boom throughout the world.

The Cornwall Handicap The Cornwall Handicap, one mile and a quarter, has attracted an entry of 68, including quite a number of winning hacks, who are being promoted to the open class. Those of the best class nominated are Landveyor, Gay Lally, Hippodrome, Cowper, Chung Chong, Swirt Quarry, Broiedame, Findon, Hot Pursuit and Arco.