FROM STUD AND STABLE N.Z. HAS STRONG RECORD IN BRISBANE CUP

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31087, 16 June 1966, Page 4

FROM STUD AND STABLE N.Z. HAS STRONG RECORD IN BRISBANE CUP

Apa’s Brisbane Cup victory this week put New Zealandowned horses back on to the records of a race which has done much to attract attention to stout New Zealand staying lines in the last 20 years.

Apa’s win in the big Queensland race said much for the hardiness of this season’s Auckland Cup winner; and much also for the skill of the Otaki trainer, M. N. Seal, with a horse threatened with enforced retirement with leg trouble last year.

Apa, a nuggety son of Gabador and King’s Lady, will probably remain in Australia to prepare for the big spring cups in Melbourne. Seven years ago the Bris-bane-Melbourne Cups double fell to Macdougal, another very good New Zealand-bred stayer. Great Treble Macdougal won the Brisbane Cup with 7-12 and the Melbourne Cup with 8-11. In between those victories he also carried off AJ.C. Metropolitan honours with 8-6. Apa’s win in the Brisbane Cup this year followed a sequence of wins by Austra-lian-breds, but there has been a New Zealand association nearly all the way along the line.

Fair Patton, which won in 1964 and again in 1965, came from the famous Sharkie family and two removes back is pure New Zealand.

His grand-dam was the New Zealand-bred Dissipation, a half-sister to the Caulfield Cup winner Beaulivre, by Night Raid from Passbook by Paper Money. Campo, a son of Landau now at stud in Canterbury, won the Brisbane Cup in 1964.

A distinguished name went

on to the race records In 1961 when Tulloch triumphed under 9-12.

This was the champion’s only victory at two miles, but only bad luck, it seemed.

would have cost him a victory in the Melbourne Cup at three years if Mr Haley had decided to start him. Three New Zealand-owned stayers to win the Brisbane

Cup in the 1950 s were Lancaster, Redcraze and Cambridge.

Redcraze won the Brisbane Cup with 9-0. Later that year he fashioned a spectacular record, carrying off victories in the Metropolitan, the Caulfield Cup and in weightforage events before going under by inches to Evening Peal in the Melbourne Cup, in which he carried 10-3.