TRACK & STABLE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20080, 28 October 1939, Page 9

TRACK & STABLE

final acceptances

NEW ZEALAND CUP

LADY FURST'S LINES BRED TO STAY ON By “Trenton" Final acceptances for the New Zealand Clip and Stewards’ Handicap are due next Monday. •V Speedy Stayer Lady Furst impressed by her easy win in the Wellington Handicap last week, and she ran a fair race on the second day. She has been raised 61b. in the New Zealand Gup. making her weight 8.2. There is no doubt about this filly's pace and stamina, and she may easily repeated Cuddle's end-to-end performance in 1985.

Lady Furst is a four-year-old black filly by Siegfried from the Lord Quex Watchful mare Vigilance, hence she is a sister to Kai Tore, who won races in Australia before being sent to Singapore some months ago, and a half-sister to the northern hurdler Agog. Vigilance, who descends from the famous Manto. was a useful winner in her day without rising much above hack grade, and she is a half--sister to Watch Officer, who won the Wellesley Stakes of 1929 in race record time and was sold at a big figure to race in Melbourne.

New Zealand Cup

With the conclusion of the Wellington Racing Club's spring meeting discussions on the New Zealand Cup and Stewards' Handicap will be carried on with increased interest, and there is no doubt that the results at Trentham will have an elightening influence on the opinions of early students of form.

Impressive trials for the New Zealand Cup witnessed during the Wellington meeting were those of Yours Truly, Lady Furst, Centrepoise and Arctic King, and others who ran well enough to give them prospects were Tooley Street. Capricious. Peerless, Siegmund. Lowenberg. and Wagner.

A Likely Proposition

Passaform will represent Washdyke in the Cup race, and although he is certain to carry a few pounds overweight to secure the services of a strong horseman, he is entitled to consideration. He is very well this season, and there need be no doubt about his staying ability. He will be seen out at Motukarara to-day. and a better line will be available about him.

Special Preparation Royal Chief is undergoing a special preparation for the New Zealand Cup, but the weight he has equals the weight-carrying winning record of Nightmarch in the race.

flow They Are Won Many Stewards' Handicaps have been won from the back with lightning challenges along the outside of the lenders. No horse impressed at Trentham as a better type for such a victory this year than Globe Trotter, who put in two remarkable late efforts in his races' at the week-end. Probable Favourite Benulivrc’s acceptance will no doubt, cramp discussions on the Stewards' Handicap. He has his fair share of weigh*, but in his present form it is difficult to go past him. He is a smart beginner, and is capable of being well placed from the outset. Benulivre has 81b. over weight-for-age, but if he is allowed to take his place in the field he will be well supported to win under record weight for a three-year-old victor. The best winning performance by a horse of the age in the race was Machine Gun’s success under 8.9 (lib. less than Bcaulivre has) in 1903. Increased Investments Three days have been held at Trentham in the spring on only five occasions to date, and the investments for the respective meetings have been: — 1933, £81,214 10s; 1936. £133,562: 1937, £160.380 10s: 1938, £172,653: and 1939. £199,412. Comment On Caulfield Cup Commenting on the Caulfield Cup, the Melbourne correspondent of the Sydney Morning Herald says: "Rivettc won the Caulfield Cup so well as to indicate she has excellent prospects of winning the Melbourne Cup, in which she was handicapped at 6.13. On Saturday she carried 7.2. and even with the 101 b. penalty, which she has been given, she will carry only 71b. more than the weight with which she administered a trouncing to the Caulfield Cup field. There were one or two hard-luck stories after the Caulfield Cup, but nothing occurred that could detract from Rivctte's performance."

The Telegraph’s Melbourne correspondent says: "The unluckiest horse of the Caulfield Cup was Respirator. He dropped back to last and was still •here five furiongs from the post, then threaded through the field, and was rapidly overtaking the leaders in tlie last half furlong, bul was 100 kilo."