SEASON'S PREMIER RACE

NZ Truth, Issue 1187, 30 August 1928, Page 12

SEASON'S PREMIER RACE

Trotting Cup Contest Attracts Twenty-two Entries (By "The Toff.") TALK is cheap; and when it comes to the contest for the New 1 Zealand Trotting Cup, there is always plenty of it.

THE stake for this year's premier race is £ 3000, the same as last season's star event, but the class is 4.26. Last year it was 4.28. No fewer than 22 candidates have been favored with an opportunity to flatter their patrons by parading— possibly with a new set of colors aboard—in November. „ ± „ .. When it comes to cups, all the vanity m the world is not m a lady's case—far from it. The fact that it costs them £20 to start a horse m the New. Zealand Trotting Cup cuts no ice with some people; even if their moke runs last, they are still conceited over the of having owned a horse that was eligible to run. For the approaching premier contest, no fewer than 22 horses have been entered. Just how the new handicapper (whoever he may be) will arrange the adjustments, one cannot state, but they should, be easy to compile. . If the 22 names were put to the ballot, it is a hundred pence to an • orange peel that three of the 22 horses entered would be ticked off to participate m the money. But just whether it is good business

to name them, one hardly knows, for such a selection may prejudice Oiose horses' handicaps. . _ To get over the difficulty, JV^. Truth" will state that if Terence JJUlon is on 4.2.5, he will have many friends, and if Jack Potts is on 4.^d.%. he will have as many friends as Terence Dillon. . If Ahuriri is not farther back than 4„he wm also be m the boom. These assumptions are made m the darkj o£ course( t>ut if past indications are a guide, those are the marks on which these horses are likely to be placed. The Holmes family has three representatives, while J. Washington has one. The horses m the Holmes family stables are Queen's Own, Logan Chief and Talaro. Daphne de Oro is J. Washington's candidate, ..„.,„. ,„,,,, Tm ?• Bryce will haye Ahuriii .and Imprint to do battle for nim. j Henderson has Terence Dillon and Dalnahine engaged. rphe only owner with two candidates m tlie race \s j. r. McKenzie, whose colors will be carried by Great Bingen and Acron.