ABOUT PRINCE OF ORANGE

Evening Post, Issue 122, 26 May 1933, Page 4

ABOUT PRINCE OF ORANGE

The good schooling and galloping of i Prince o| Orange just before the recent j Te Kuiti Meeting was responsible i'or his j favouritism in the Te Kuiti Hurdles, nnd liis supporters must have been sorely disappointed ivhen lie dropped right back in the last six furlongs, says the northern critic, "Archer." The heavy state of the going was urged us an excuse for him, but it is not altpgether convincing when it is recalled that he ran some good races' on the Hat in soft ground. ..Moreover, it is almost certain that he will have to race on a heavy trad-: at Ellers'lie, and if he is averse to such conditions there is not much encouragement to be enamoured of his prospects in the Great Northern Hurdles.

A BROTHER TO L'ALLEGRO

Allegretto, like his full-brother, L'Allegro, made an auspicious start when he accounted for the Maiden Handicap at Te Uapu last Saturday. .1/Allegro also won his iirst race on the same course. 5 Allegretto is a five-year-old gelding, and , \vus bred by Mr. G. W. Vercoe. As a yearling he was knocked down to Mr. s Campbell Johnston for 250gs, but. Mr. > Johnston died and the sale was not com- . pleted. .He was taken over by Mr. Vercoe i and his son, but they had not been able | to race him till last Saturday. Allegretto r much resembles L'Allegro, only lie is a bigger horse. He is a bold galloper, "and, despite the fact that he was beaten on Monday, he should, turn out a. very.use--3 fill sort. .'' ■ ' ..■■■";■''