CURRENT TOPICS FROM STABLE AND COURSE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 July 1939, Page 11

CURRENT TOPICS FROM STABLE AND COURSE

Critics Again Perturbed LACK OF STAYERS IN ENGLAND WAS EVIDENT IN FINISH OF GOLD CUP (BY “CARBINE.”) Nearly every year the English critics are perturbed at the alleged lack of stayers in that country. Flyon was scarcely considered up to Ascot Gold Cup standard, and yet he scored the easiest of wins. “Fairway,” in discussing the result of the Gold Cup, expressed the following opinions in the London “Sunday Times”:—“The limitation of our stayers has never been m°re evident than at the finish of the Gold Cup, as, after a race which began at a very slow pace and never exceeded a nice ‘half-speed gallop,’ all save the winner, Flyon, were stone cold. How they would have finished had there been a pacemaker to take them along I cannot imagine

“Excuses may be macle for Senor and Foxglove II in that they had both obviously trained off. and are but shadows of their former selves, while Frawn had had a severe race in the Ascot Stakes forty-eight hours previously. but the fact remains that we have very few horses in the country capable of getting two and a half miles, and the majority of those who can are woefully slow "Scottish Union is, I am sure, a very high-class horse, indeed, up to a mile and a half, or. perhaps, even up to a couple of furlongs further, but he is definitely not a Cup horse. “The time was ten seconds slower than last year, and I do not place Flyon high in my list of Gold Cup winners.”