NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXXI, Issue 87, 12 April 1940, Page 11

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

WINNING SEQUENCE BROKEN

When Warning paraded in the Rakaia Handicap, at Ashburton... Jje_J»ad a of four wins in ae many starts, but he failed to maintain his winning sequence, and he could do no better than finish seventh. However, he showed a Hue turn of speed for the greater part of the mile and a half journey, and he can be expected to make amends before long.

WILL DO BETTER. Happy Man was elected favourite among the novice pacers in the Improvers' Handicap at Aehburton, but he let his supporters down by breaking up badly at the start. Nevertheless, he was responsible for an outstanding effort in the middle stages, when he ran up to the leaders from an impossible position, and his display indicated that he will be a good one once he acquires solidity away from the barrier.

HALF-SISTER TO NOT OUT. Mr. G. Gould has sent a yearling filly to F. A. Robert*, at Riucarton, who will break her and get her ready to race: She is a well-grown daughter of Myosotie and Penny Wise, a half-sister by Jericho to Not Out. Roberta will not race many of his team during the winter, but Capricious and Ripley are being kept going with a view to, competing at the South Canterbury meeting.