SIDELIGHTS ON FORM

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 7 March 1935, Page 3

SIDELIGHTS ON FORM

RACING AT RANGITIKEI LEPRECHAUN IS SPEEDY HOW GOOD IS RULANUT? (By “Childers.”) A Promising Sort. Leprechaun was solidly backed in the Trial Plate on the strength of good track work and he duly came home a good winner. He ran to the front within a furlong and once headed for heme, was never in danger of defeat, winning very comfortably.- He looks to be a smart galloper in the making and should have little difficulty in winning amongst hack company. Leprechaun is a tin-e-year-old chestnut gelding by Poach Brandy out of Arras and is trained at Ftilding by C. Pilcher.

Much Improved Mare. Chief Marionette won the Rangitikei Cup impressively and there is no doubt that she is a much improved mare. She was always going like a winner, putting in a •very fast run immediately after cn-t-wing the straight. Further successes are likely to iconic her way in the near future. Her win brought W. .T. Brough tor up “level with L. J. Ellis at the top of the winning jockeys’ list.

Darecourt Stays Well. Dai (.court was never really in danger

of defeat, always appearing to have the Circa cford Hack in safe keeping. He is in i loving with every race and as he shapes like a true stayer must now become one of the favourites for the Chant ion Hack Cup to be contested at thu approaching Trcntham meeting.

Too Much Confidence. While Bold Jim won convincingly, it seemed that lie was ridden rather overconfidently by P. Burgess in the higliweight. For the greater part of the journey ‘lie tailed the field and with only three furlongs to go was .still in tlic rear, fully ten lengths away from the leaders, Eka Tere and Royal Record. However, lie was fortunate enough to receive an uninterrupted passage on the rails and lie .managed to hit the front half-way down the straight, after which nothing had a chance. Despite this, the probabilities are that he would not have been able to get up in time had lie met with the slightest check.