WELLINGTON CUP.

Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 332, 13 January 1937, Page 7

WELLINGTON CUP.

Floodtide Awarded The Top Weight.

The next important meeting in the

Dominion will be the Wellington summer fixture which opens at Tre-n--tham on Wednesday and will be continued on the following Friday and Saturday, and the issue of the weights for the first day by Mr H. Coyle will considerably increase interest in the meeting.

The Wellington Cup is the chief event, and Flood Tide has been awarded top weight, 9.6, which is 61b over weight-for-age. He is a four-year-old, and horses of this age have a good record in the race, but none

of them has succeeded under this impost, though it has to be remembered that the minimum has been increased from 7.0 to 7.7 this sea-

son. Uniform, who won in 1898 with 9.3, the minimum being 6.7 in those days, has the best performance as a four-year-old, so that, taking a stone off Flood Tide to reduce the weight to the same scale, he is not set an impossible task, especially considering that Advance succeeded as a six-year-old, carrying 10.4 to victory. Flood Tide ran a good race in the Auckland Cup for a mile and a-half with 8.11, while with 9.1 he won the A.R.C. Handicap over that distance in good style. Flood Tide will again be troublesome. Argentic (9.3) was

second in the Auckland Cup to Cuddle, with 8.9, while in the A.RC. Handicap he was set to give Flood Tide 41b, but did not start. He ran a good race in the Clifford Plate subsequently, when he finished second to Cuddle, and is now meeting Flood Tide on 11b better terms than in the Auckland Cup. He is an improved horse this season.