NEW ZEALAND DERBY.

Auckland Star, Volume LX, Issue 245, 16 October 1929, Page 16

NEW ZEALAND DERBY.

GREAT PARRISH TO COMPETE,

All going well in the meantime the chances are that Auckland will be represented at the New Zealand Cup meeting next month by several good horses, but chief interest at this end will centre in the attaek Gold Jacket will make upon the Cup, and Great Parrish upon the Derby. Gold Jacket is not engaged' at the Auckland meeting this month, and unless he is given a run in the New Zealand Cup Trial at the Wellington meeting, he will not have any full-dress rehearsal "before he lines up with the elite of the land in the Dominion's richest handicap. Just at present L. McMahon has his charge going along nicely, the gelding doing all required of him, and he should be right at the top of his form when the Cup contest has to be undertaken. Whether he can win is questionable, but he should be a worthy representative of this end of the Dominion. Great Parrish will go to throw down the gauntlet to fjie best of the South Island three-year-olds, and if they can dispose of him they will have to be good. In his last four starts he has won three times, and on Saturday, when he scored at Hamilton at a mile and a quarter, his performance was very impressive. He is bound to Improve with another month to go, and. few who saw him win on Saturday would care to wager against him when J. T. Paul steps him out in the Derby. His best time to date is 3.33, which he registered as a two-year-old, but he will knock a lot off this if the track is in good order at Addington.