LIMERICK'S VICTORY

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 64, 13 September 1926, Page 11

LIMERICK'S VICTORY

SOME PRESS COMMENT.

(United Press Association.—Copyright.) SYDNEY, This Day.

The "Sydney Morning Herald," commenting on the Chelmsford Stakes, says that Windbag was the last of the six to move, but that did not cause consternation for a moment. At the mile post, King Val was a longth or so ahead of Limerick, with the others in the following order: Farmer, Rapine, Windbag, Pantheon. A little further on it was soen that Windbag was not in a galloping humour, and that Muuro was at him with hands and heels. When they turned into tho straight, Limerick was well clear from Rapine and Windbag. Windbag, however, was sluggish, and, would not do what was required of him, at least not in the way he chased and beat Valicare in the Warwick Stakes on the previous Saturday. The result was a victory for a gelding engaged in the Australian Jockey Club's classic, and this win for the New Zealander enhances the interest in tho race for tho Derby. Limerick is a good, game horse, in splendid condition.

Tho '•Telegraph" says that Limerick (New Zealand's candidate for the Derby) won the Chelmsford Stakes impressively, cantering home two lengths in advance of Windbag. It was only on sufferance that he ran Limerick to two lengths. The champion's form was not to bo compared with that at Warwick Farm. Windbag is to be given an easy time, for the next fortnight, and will not race again till tho opening day of the Australian Jockey Club's Spring Meeting.