PHAR LAP'S WEIGHT

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 16, 20 January 1932, Page 6

PHAR LAP'S WEIGHT

AGUA CALIENTE RACE

Although Phar Lap heads the weights for the Aqua Caliente Handicap, to be run on 20th March, he would appear to have been given every chance, for the 9.3 he has been awarded is not a particularly substantial impost for him to carry, especially when it is taken into accoimt tha£ America's best horses do not usually race at Aqua Caliente, as the majority of them are1 spelling .preparatory to going into, training for the Eastern rasing season. It has also to be remembered that he is a five-year-old to Australian time, but that he ranks as a six-year-old in America. ~ ' ,

If Phar Lap acclimatises quickly and has a clear run in the race, he should certainly iind 9.3 something of a luxury. His superiority is nevertheless admitted in the fact that' he has been asked to concede" 91b to the next best horses engaged in the race, Plucky Play andf tit.. Freeland (8.8). Plucky Play, a five-year-old, was a winner over a mile and a half in November :with .8.1, and ran second to the great Sun Beau in the- Lincoln Handicap last August. Dr. Freeland, a six-year-old, won the Baltimore Handicap j nine furlongs, 'atPimlieo, Maryland,, carrying 8.3, ,inN.ov,ember,. Plucky Play also, being.a runner. .." ■ ."■ ' '.. \ . '.'--.:

Wotah, next on'the list with B!7,'!.'iS'.'a prolific winner/ having, succeeded in seven races since 6th August. Reveille Boy, who has; 8.6, is an American Derby winner, and has" since carried, coihparatively. big weights.' His most'recent victories, according to the latest files to hand, were iv a mile event at Saratogii' in August, when he carried 8.10. The following month he won the Lexington Handicap, nine iurlongs, at Belmont Park, New York, with 9.0. ■•■•■■■■' ,-

Marine, who has been given 8.2, is . a welL:bred horse by the celebrated Mari-o'-War,,who won twenty races in: twentyone starts. ,In August, Marine'carried 0.1 successfully -in a race over-' a mile 70 yards. \ '. ; " ■ ~.".-■• .':■.'■;•■ ■■; '■■-'''.",■• '. ; Spanish; Play,' who [is on the So mark, won the, Latonia Derby last June in the exceptional time of 2min SOseu, for the mile and a half. Up " to' this ■ stage his record was nineteen starts for eight wins, five seconds, and two thirds. He ran in. six -Derbies.,' winning two.