It’s only fitting, in the true spirit of Anzac, New Zealand gallopers will now get the chance to qualify for the Jericho Cup, Australia’s longest flat race.
The 4600-metre, stamina-sapping test was inaugurated at Warrnambool last year, a revival of a race first staged by Australian soldiers in Palestine in 1918, during World War I.
The first Jericho Cup was a centenary commemoration of the Australian and New Zealand light-horse involvement in the First World War and is designed to be the centrepiece of a Warrnambool meeting on December 1, when the seaside town is gearing up for the summer holiday season.
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