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Article: Hooves do talking for game Talk Show
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- Sunday Star-Times
- Article date:
- November 8, 1998
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TARANAKI jockey Paul Taylor is hoping yesterday's Gold Cup winner
Talk Show can emulate the feat of another front-running stayer Our
Boyfriend and win Saturday's $140,000 New Zealand Cup.
Taylor was drawn to compare the unusual style of the two stayers
after Talk Show led most of the way yet stuck on gamely to beat
Azabeel in yesterday's $40,000 cup prelude at Riccarton.
Taylor said he recalled watching Mark Barnsley win the cup in
1984
on the free-going Our Boyfriend and on the strength of yesterday's
win he saw no reason why Talk Show could not do the same.
Talk Show ran best when allowed to bowl along in front.
"I just wanted to keep him up to a true pace. They had to get
past him and ...