MOTHER SUPERIOR'S RACE

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 88, 13 April 1935, Page 27

MOTHER SUPERIOR'S RACE

. Although Mother .Superior has been accepted for. b<>th 'the Great Northern Oaks and the :Eagter: Handicap at.Ellerslie next iSaturdaj^,;.;-it :is:' generally considered that her ■misfeioii\';tii jll: be ;the Easter,' in which she would;sl»#-■ridden by H. N. .Wiggins. According Wanganui. report, she has done'■satisfactorily, in'heK. recent work The'■ reasoiii/for leaving Mother Superior in the'■ Galc^; waS . probably; the doubt about-whibli'race Gay Blonde' would contest, ; GayiiWcmde has 'dropped out of the Easter and will how seek the easy money of the-Oaks on .the first day. Mother Superior., though, a sister to Eaglet, winner of the New Zealand Oaks, was herself well beaten by Variant in the last New Zealand Oaks in November, and Variant's subsequent.failures to stay against the half-ready Sporting Blood in the St. Lcgor at Trentham last month would not point at all favourably towards her prospects of offering any fight to Gay Blonde in the northern fillies' classic. Even tho mile oE the Easier may be overfar for her, unless the going should be heavy. •■ * ■ . • '