The Treble

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 782, 1 October 1929, Page 12

The Treble

CUP AND TWO SPRINTS ALTHOUGH the very interesting classic races on Saturday next —opening day of the spring meeting of the Auckland Racing Club at _ Ellerslie—provide much material for animated discussion, practically the only business being transacted at present is in connection with the three leading handicap events—Mitchelson Cup, Shorts Handicap and Plying Handicap. The fields in these contests are excellent in both quality and quantity, although the absence in Australia of so many of our best handicap, weight-for-age and classic horses has had more than a little effect on the fields to be seen out this week-end. True, the material is on hand, but what might it not have been with a number of those performers now across the Tasman competing with those left behind? It needs only a glanep to show that the Auckland

spring meeting has been affected to an extent never before thought possible, and is such as to give the A.R.C. serious food for thought. An excellent programme will be staged on Saturday, however, and'the prestige of the A.R.C. will be well maintained. In the meantime the following half-dozen horses are among those considered likely in Saturday’s treble;— Mitchelson Cup.—Star Stranger, Historic, Prince Humphrey, Prodice, Paddon and Piuthair. Shorts Handicap.—Benzora, Gold Money, Lady Quex, Havering, Awarere and Polyx-ena. Plying Handicap.—Reremoana, Plying Juliet, Maori Bov, Mervette, Otairi and King Emerald.