POOR CROWD THEY ARE

NZ Truth, Issue 1187, 30 August 1928, Page 11

POOR CROWD THEY ARE

New Zealand Cup Nominations Are Disappointing Nominations for the New Zealand Cup closed last week and m all, forty-nine horses were entered for the big" November event.

SOME owners and trainers are possessed of more money than sense, and how a number could, justify the inclusion of some of the brutes entered, they alone know. They have been nominated m shapes and sizes--from maidens to champions. rn> nn ,iY.a<> a* ie . »„„ + i i,n?iW,Vo^l nT«n^ S ha J e a £ c'» * r *ce a iL, the New Z ?£" iv^n^c^^f^Jv^^ g°atS ' the event js made to look cheap. In fact, the time has arrived when there should be some necessary qualiflcation to get into such big handicaps. Squibs and never-will-be's are a source of annoyance to the handioapper when he comes to frame his figures. With Star Stranger included, there will he no need to look further for the tnn WA«~ht topweignt. He will get the maximum of 9.6, two pounds more than he ran second with last year.

The winner twelve months back is there—Rapier—while Count Cavour, successful two years ago, is also m the list. Three-year-olds are as usual poorly represented and the winner will not ? ome frora that age-unless a miracle happens. Black Mint has been talked of lately fOT tte race, and then there is a quintet of doubtful two-milers m Lady 'Desmond, Set Sail, Pink Note, Tresham nfl Bm' nn(ip *n" ■Benn T n J ee ' „ ' * v, * Beacon Light has been entered, but hls case is very doubtful. The strain t0 et him ready may be to ° great, Those two lifers," Battlement and Haze, will not be thought a great deal °f> while Nukumai should not be able to win here--i-L. a «„»v,i,,0*!„«0 „.« -,u~,.«*u'he nominations are altogether disappointing, and they just go to show what a bad lot of handicap horses there is m work at the -{present time.