TO-MORROW'S PROSPECTS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 45, 21 August 1925, Page 8

TO-MORROW'S PROSPECTS

(By "Vedette.")

■ It is most unfortunate for the club and for the visitors that heavy rain set in and continued throughout Thursday night. The track to-morrow ■ will be as bad 1 as ever, but as horses have bad nothing but mud to race and gallop in for months, form should still hold good.. The acceptances for tomorrow are . satisfactory, and although there has been a heavy weeding-out in one or two races, the quality of the fields has not been affected adversely. Highway and Sir Wai have been withdrawn 'from the Admiral's Steeplechase, the event of the day, leaving 14 runner-s. Tha rain is not in the favour of Puwhero, but he might manage to last out the journey. Now that j the track has become very soft again, however, one has to leaa more to Fireblight. Tuki will have friends, and so will the two top-weights, Omahu and Erie, but the weight should tell against them in the heavy ground. H. M'Sweeney will have to ride Master -Peter if he starts, and a new rider will be found for Tuki. Master Peter's effort in the hurdle race cannot be overlooked. Fireblight, ridden by W. Bowden, looks the best proposition. Glument meets Peter Maxwell on 51b better terms in the Sailors' Hurdles than on the first day. Peter Maxwell appeared to win by that margin. If Lady Gay races up to her best form | she is a possibility, but form point* to the first day's winner. Nine' of Spades should be a good favourite for the Newark Handicap.' There are no Father O'Flynn's in this race. . • \ Star Ranger takes the eye in the Trenton Handicap. He wasfinishing on in his race on the first day. Gardant and j Olympic read best of the others. | The Colorado Handicap should be a j most interesting race. Kilfane may I show, up better than on the first -day, while Father O'Flynn won the Trial" Plate in such good style that he cannot be passed by even for a race of this kind. Lady Ben with her light weight should be suited by the. track conditions. She and Kilfaire" were still going very well in the Seattle Handicap at a mile. Te Kawa should be at a short price in the Washington Hurdles. If General Carrington is a runnethe must be given a great chance. Archeen should strip a better horse to-morrow than on the first day, and he seems nicely placed in the Officers' Handicap. Kuhio, who will be ridden probably by J. Barry, has only to run up to Winter Cup form to be dangerous. The concluding event is of reasonable dimensions. Forgery no doubt will carry a lot of money, but Nadarino's second in the Trial Plate was a good effort.

Te Kawa and Tigerland arrived from the South. this . morning, and will be racing at Trerithara to-morrow.