CHEDDINGTON'S NEXT

Evening Post, Volume CXXIX, Issue 17, 20 January 1940, Page 21

CHEDDINGTON'S NEXT

KILCASH IS PROMISING

(Special from "Early Bird.")

AJJCKLAND, January 19

It is v,ery probable that Kilcash will be produced on Monday at Thames, for he was allowed to forgo his engagement on the first day. He is a very promising maiden and was recently placed in a hack handicap at Ellerslie, form that should be sufficient to cause him to be heavily supported at his next two or three outings.

There is a maiden race f~r two- and three-year-olds at Matamata a fortnight henqe, this being run over five furlongs at vveight-for-age. It has been announced that Cheddington is to be entered for this event, and after his very narrow defeat in the Foal Stakes he will be a very warm proposition if he faces the starter. No youngster with such pretensions to class has ever contested this race, and the result may be a cramped field.

King Musk at times has appeared to be the makings of a first-class hurdler, and his latest efforts have therefore been very disappointing. He may make an appearance over the brush hurdles on the second day at Thames, and as the obstacles should suit a horse with his pace he should be prominent.

It does not take a stayer to win the second-day handicap event at Thames, for it is run over nine furlongs, and the course is by no means a severe test It is an event that should suit Pirate King better than the Goldfields Cup, while there are two others not in the big race today that may have to be considered. They are. Foxmond and Young Paddon, neither of whom should be bothered by the journey, especially if the course remains easy after the recent rains.

Ever singe he scored, his surprise victory in the Poland Cup at Paeroa in the early spring Hot Box has been a disappointment, and his subsequent failures may be attributed to the fact that this hard race before he was thoroughly attuned might have found Mm out. However that may be, he has had time to freshen up again, and therefore there win be some interest taken in his condition when he makes his next appearance, which will be in the sprint at Thames on Monday.

Mintlaw was to have had his first trial over a middle distance in the Goldfields Cup today, and if he does not show up at the end of that contest it is more than likely that he will be relegated to shorter events, and with that idea in mind he is also in the seven-furlong event on Monday at Thames. His best effort to date in* good company. was his third at Te Awamutu last month to Erlick and Namara, over the shorter journey, so he is a possibility in this grade on the concluding day.