TOPICAL COMMENT

Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 235, 5 October 1942, Page 5

TOPICAL COMMENT

COMING TO ELLGRBLIG The Wanganui light-weight rider, K. Chote, will attend the Auckland meeting next week, and has been engaged to ride Pennywhistle In the Gordon Handicap. PROGRESSING WELL Since Joining J. Chisholm's team Kraal has made good progress and Is In firstrate order. Recently this mare has been showing plenty of speed in her trials, and she Is due to make a re-appearance at the Auckland meeting next Saturday. NOT HERSELF Straight Bat made her return to racing at Ashburton. After doing an attractive preliminary she was well supported. She was in a lather at the post, and no doubt this took a lot out of "her. Nevertheless she was In a commanding position right "into the straight before compounding.

WELL-MERITED SUCCESS Desert Maid, -which paid nearly a third of a century when she won at Orari, is a four-year-old half-sister to Spanish Lad and a sister to Nigger Boy. w Tl l e dam. Spearmaid. was bred by Mr. H. A. Knight, and was produced by Greyspear from Marsinah by Martian. Desert Maid has a good share of the family but unruliness at the barrier and difficulty in keeping her on a straight path in her races have restricted her record. On Saturday she was slow away after giving trouble, and to get up to the field she had to take a wide berth throughout, so that her performance in snatching victory from Last Effort was full of merit.

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