GAY CREST'S STABLE

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 28, 3 February 1932, Page 4

GAY CREST'S STABLE

PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

According to a southernI'-.'.report Gay Crest is booked fora tripto-Punediu with a definite engagement in the James Hazlett Gold Cup, but it is not.certain that he; will take his place in the Dunedin Cup.' He is not handicapped out of • the race,; but it. is considered that he has had': a strenuous period: of racing under big weights, and, on hard;tracks, and ho risk is to be taken in cbhtinmrig:such tasks for comparatively small returns.'-' '"■• '.' : A- similar.position is.likely in 'regard to an- Australian'v-programnre, and\the .trip to;Sydney,:St:'one'timeVproposed; for him, is not lik'ely-.toVtake place, judged on theSydney handipaiiper's v estimate -of him.InI'all probability;-therefore, Gay Crest's; efforts will be mostly confined to New Zealand weighf-for-age races in the next few months. , T. Lloyd is keeping Desert Song and Ad,elphi going in view of racing them again, at the Canterbury Jockey Club's summer Meeting on 20th February. The former has been somewhat disappointing in .the past couple of months, but he has never done well on hard ground and better results.may be expected from him with a Change in Nthe prevailing track conditions. Eoyal Baby was given a spell after her breakdown at Woodville, caused, it is thought, by putting a foot m a hole during tae progress of her race there, and as she is still suffering from the effects, it lias been decided 'that no further attempt will be,- made to race her and she will enter upon stud duty nest season. The two-year-old Tout le Mond has also had an easy, time since returning from Ellerslie, and although he may be again produced at Easter, he is not expected to show his real ability until next. season. He! has grown into a solid youngster,-and makes strong appeal as; one likely to develop into n high-class.-'^hre'e-year-old. The' three-year-old .."filly Dianthus, by- Diacquenod fromv'tSe Irish-bred.mare, Clare Crag,r-:BKo\fe(i^ai'glimpße *6f '-'^ricOuraging; form;•;at!jt&^^^t:^epa^i^Me'etingß; • but; she 'is:n'ot too- koimd* :arid''will probably' be' algoiietir«d;to; tfieitnatrpng*:; paddock, j^l:-{