THREE-YEAR-OLD ASPIRANTS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 151, 23 December 1938, Page 13

THREE-YEAR-OLD ASPIRANTS

The best three- /'iar-olds are generally at Ellerslie at Christmas and so there is not often a class horse of this age in the fields at Manawatu. However, it is interesting to note that the three-year-old brigade is well represented in the three open events at Awapuni tomorrow, and it is quite on the Cards that one or more of them will claim a success this year. The three-year-old in the Manawatu Cup is the BeaU Pere filly Peerless. No horse of the age has ever won this important handicap, but Peerless is good enough to set a precedent. In the Fitzherbert Handicap the thfee-yeaf'Olds are represented by the Nightmareh filly Russian Ballet, winner of the Wanganui Guineas, the Gascony filly Rakahanga, open sprint winner at the New Zealand Cup Meeting, and the Beau Pere colt Ivar, who has not yet recaptured his juvenile form this term. In the Grandstand Handicap there are two further acceptors 9f the age. One is the Beau Pere gelding Amigo. who holds the Australian and New Zealand record for five furlongs and who was .one of the best juveniles out last term, though he failed to come to hand on a trip to Australia In the soring The other is the Nightmareh colt Plight Hawk, who beat Surmount and Lord Cavendish in the Stonyhurst Handicap at Riccarton last month with a brilliant finishing effort.