By MIKE DILLON
Lyell Creek will be there, but Chris Munce wont.
Cup day at Ellerslie that is.
The Auckland Racing Club confirmed last night that New Zealand's champion trotter will give an exhibition at Ellerslie on New Year's Day.
"It will be shades of when Christian Cullen paraded on cup day a couple of years back - that proved a huge success," said ARC chief executive David Lloyd.
Chris Munce will have to appeal successfully against the five-raceday suspension he was handed at Warwick Farm races in Sydney on Wednesday to be able to ride Travellin' Man in the $250,000 McDonogh Stakes at Ellerslie on January 1.
Sydney-based Munce was suspended from December 27 to January 7 and said he would consider lodging an appeal against the suspension.
The Auckland Racing Club's main riding invitee to the meeting, Melbourne's Nash Rawiller, will ride on all four days and has landed the mount on Corrupted in the $350,000 Mercedes Derby.
Rawiller will arrive in Auckland late on Christmas Day.
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