THE ARISTOCRATS MEET

NZ Truth, Issue 1203, 20 December 1928, Page 15

THE ARISTOCRATS MEET

Best In New Zealand Will Face The Starter In Auckland's Rich Cup Event

PROMISE OF GREAT CONTEST (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Representative). The Beau Brummells of t_ie light-harness world will be dolled up m their best for the Auckland summer meeting, and the majority of the aristocrats have £2300 to chase m the Cup.

THE big two-rhiler is staged for next Thursday, and a stirring contest can be expected with fifteen billed to shake it along. . ' Which competitor will bow to the judge will, take some sorting out, but there will not be a shortage of the wherewithal to keep the tote figures spinning. • They do not fancy Machine Gun, for his efforts have not been clever of late, though he knows the way home at Alexandra Park. When Ahuriri failed to see out the acceptance they took it for granted that Imprint must be building up "Scotty" Bryce's hopes, but unless he stages a real come-back there are others that will give him the k.o. Padlock has fallen from grace, \ but to count him out because he failed iri the' N.Z. Cup may not be good business and Mitchell's representative may take all manner of topping off. Auckland is represented by two and Gold Jacket reads better than Jewel Pointer, for whereas the first-named has improved with racing, there is, a suspicion that the other has become stale. Still, he can do it and do it well into the bargain when right.

Gold Jacket must be tough when his recent form is thoroughly digested and there will be a swag of boodle plonked on his number. A big wheeze for the . New Zealand Cup was Terence Dillon, but he has broken the hearts of his supporters. Whether he will make amends at Epsom is a question that is proving a cross-word puzzle, but doing it right he should certainly go close, for he has an Otahuhu Cup to his credit and knows the Epsom grass. Peterwah is not advantageously placed amongst the pacers, though there is the argument that he. "has topped them off before — but not .from the same mark m such company. Cardinal Logan and Kohara will come iri for a fair measure- of ' support, and Peter Bingen will have more friends than he' has had • previously m. big heats. There remain Jack Potts, : Prince Pointer and Great Bingen 'and such a trio forms a solid division. . " : They are real race-course idols with a host of admirers from. the.-. North Cape to the Bluff. ... So there they -are,- fifteen of*' the, brightest and best and Great Bingen, Jack Potts, Prince Pointer, Terence Dillon and Gold Jacket take the eye.