CLASSICS MONOPOLY

Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 14, 16 July 1937, Page 13

CLASSICS MONOPOLY

EDWARDS AND BERRY

Although Harold Logan won the Free for All at Addington this season and concluded a wonderful racing career, M. B. Edwards and R. B. Berry have had almost a monopoly of the remaining classics, says the "Press." With Parisienne Berry won the New Zealand and Great Northern Derbies, and also took the North Island Challenge Stakes with Horsepower. Edwards was successful in the Nursery Stakes at Timaru and the Sapling Stakes at Ashburton with Twos Loose, and he also won the All-Aged Stakes at Ashburton with Frisco Boy. The other classic race, the New Zealand Trotting Stakes, at Timaru, was won by R. W. Franks, with Mr. A. S. Gurney's. filly Francis Worthy. The coming season will afford more opportunities for' young horses, and with increasing competition, the stakes are likely to be more widely distributed. The three-year-old contests, too, are likely to cause the greatest interest, for the racing has introduced three exceptionally good young pacers in Horsepower, Twos Loose, and Sandusky, and a meeting between the three in the Derbies will be the means of spirited betting. This is a critical stage of a young horse's life, and outside the three mentioned there are several that may show, great improvement in the next few months.