TAKAPUNA PROSPECTS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 21, 25 January 1929, Page 7

TAKAPUNA PROSPECTS

If the weather being experienced to-day in Wellington is of a similar brand at Takapiina to-morrow, there may be some surprises. At the same time horses should run fairly true to form, for the season has been a peculiar one in the North, and horses have had to race on all kinds of ground. The first race of importance is the ZEALANDIA HANDICAP, of '100 soys; seven furlongs, st lb st 1b Tho Lamb .. S 6 Macroom 7 G Prodice .... 8 5 Scat 7 2 High Finance . 713 Cynthia N. .. 7 1 Hipo 7 10 Master O'Rorl;e 7 0 Ti Treo 7 7 Luuette 7 0 Jolly Money .. 7 7 Prodice is also in the Cup, but it looks as if she will contest this event. She has won on both wet and dry tracks, so at 8.5 she should be hard to beat. Jolly Money and Lunette appeal of the others. Then comes the TAKAPTJNA CUP HANDICAP, of 1000 soys; one mile t.hreo furlongs and forty yards. st lb st lb Transformer .. S S Thursby 7 4 Prodice .... 8 2 Hyde Purlc ... 7 0 Itoyal Doiilton S 0 The Lover 1 0 Plying Juliet .. 7IS Night ,-iiid Left 7 q Desert Glow .. 711 Eager Ituse .. 7 0 ! Wcnday .... 7 9 Plying Juliet and Desert Glow look like being favourites, but Wenday and The Lover are a likely pair of light-weights. On this, track laying Juliet should take some beating. ■' The two-year-old event is the CALLIOPE HANDICAP, or 425 soys; five furlongs. ' st lb ■ st lb Eaglet ...... 8H: Bonnie 7 a Flying Prince . 8 7 Tasty 7 2 Gemlight .... 8 5' Currajong .. 7 1 Carl Idem .... S 2 Fairy Bello ..7 0 Aivamutu .... 8 0 Norval Tea .. 70 Cymon ........ 710 Itoyal Finance 7 0 Polyxena -„79 Talctlo 7 0 Fraser ...... 7 7 Lady Suzanno . 7 0 Trig .„ 7 5 After Gay Ballerina's form yesterday at Trentham, there is little. left to be said about Polyxena. Gemlight and Eaglet, from the Polyxena stable, may be the hardest to beat. The sprint is the concluding event, the STEWARDS' HANDICAP, of .450 soys; six ' furlongs. . , st lb st lb Lady's Boy .. 7 13 Lorlcnl 11. .. 7 1 High Finance 713 Ballymoy H. . 7 0 Vallar 7 9 Taluitama .... 7 0 Jolly Money .7 5 Huffles 7 0 Maeroom ..., 7 3 Katarina '„70 Melissa .... 7 3 Appellant ..7 0 Vallar and Lady's Boy no doubt will dominate the betting, and the most likely one of the_ rest may be Jolly Money., it this event is selected for her. Horses which appear well placed in the minor events are:—Sir Moud and Roman Pearl; Ripon Abbey and Salamander; Brilliant Light and Glenstar; aud Arikitoa and Glcustar (if kept for this cveut).