Kumai Again

Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31108, 11 July 1966, Page 4

Kumai Again

(Jr6m Out Own Mp6TUr) WELLINGTON. Kumai is an accept* or for the Parliamentary Handicap at Tren* tham on Wednesday, but a start for him will be decided after he works this morninf. Kumai, already the winner of two Parliamentary Handicap* and three Winter Oats Handicaps, recorded his sixth win on the course on Saturday when be beat Confer narrowly in the Trentham Hurdles. Two renowned mudlarks fought it out dear of the others and with thia nock victory Kumai took Ms earnings for winter campaigns at Trentham to £7llO. I Kumai loot some skin from the off foreleg when he got 'in close at a hurdle about half-way through the race. He had a good look at the first jump, and took it slowly. Otherwise his display pleased his regular rider, B. J. Anderton. “He put in a beauty at the last, but it took him a bit of time to get going again in that ground, and Confer got pretty dose to us," Anderton said later. i Anderton said a decision about a start tn the Parliamentary Handicap would be ; loft to the hone’s owner, Mr T. K. S. Sidey. If they dedde to pass over the Parliamentary Handicap the big grey probably will run i# the Winter Hurtles on the last day of the meeting. Confer’s second assured him of favourttam for the Lambton Hurdles On Wednesday. “He’s an old slug," said his rider, P. R. Wilson. Wilson said Confer was “fiat” at the five furlongs, but kept plugging away, and gave Kumai a hard race. Hi There, a solid favourite, and Hello Kinfel. a moderate fancy, won the minor jumping races on the programme. The

Mariri Hack and Hunters’ Steeplechase was easy for Hi There, which won by 40 lengths from Henry. This race was the first leg of the on-course double, one that Otherwise completed with a stylish win over seven furlongs In the Woburn Handicap. The double dividend was £3O 18s. Hello Klnfel. a half-brother of the 1950 Wellington Steeplechase winner, Cabana, mastered the conditions better than the others, and won the Vittoria Hurdles handily by two lengths and a half from Kurrajong. Hello Klnfel’s Future looked bleak when he broke down at Riccarton last year, but he looked sound after bis win on Saturday, and a mudlark of bis ability should get more chances at the meeting. One of the best performances of the race was Eiffel Tower’s fourth under the topweight of 11-0. He finished less than five lengths from the winner after bunging the second to last flight. Before that, Eiffel Tower appeared to be running as well as anything else in the race, and when balanced again in the straght he cut into the lead established by Travistream, which beat him by a length for third.