The Foal Stakes

NZ Truth, Issue 996, 27 December 1924, Page 9

The Foal Stakes

! . .'■'• V • .. ■ . ■': ,''.... :'; ' ,••.-...'. '■ '■■ ■.: ■ .Six weeks back it appeared that the Auckland Club, were going to have a . great, race "for 'the •. Great ' Northern Pbal Stakes, )f or ,with / the exception of Overdrawn, the winner of the McLean Stakes at \."V?ingatui, all : the . other cracks were m. However,: one by. one they f ell* '.but, 'Nincompoop, ■Autpmne, Lady Cavendish, and the defection of this trio hag robbed' the. race of a lot pf its interest. ; ; j ! , ; . . The payment made last week left jn : fburteeri: Of that number three, of. the field are winners m handicaps (there is T\ot a classic .winner left m), and they are Rurinymede, King's Speech, and Shirley. On the face of this it would be natural '; to expect the wiriners to ; have it well on the rest of the field, arid the three named above will > all be sought after m the bettirig. ;;■ i = Runnymede was • unlucky, and then Borne, m the Welcome; Stakes at Rib-

carton. He has improved a lot since Ellerslie, and his trainer makes no secret that he expects to square the account this. time. : . King's Speech I have not seen, but Takapuna running makes him out to be pretty smart. * . Shirley, though she won at the Cup meeting "on her head," m the company she will have to oppose on Boxing Day may be overshadowed. Mimetic is my fancy for the race: He has yet to get closer than second, and that m a very moderate field, but all the same he is the goods. Both days at Woodville he went an erratic course, but the right-hand going and Roy Reed on 'top, 'allied to the fact that hV will be for the first time covering" six furlongs should see him m a .different; light at Ellerslie, Here they are: <'„,■, .. .;■ .'. . . : . .-. '■■'■, ■■ - :: ■ .-;■■ > ' Mimetic Runnymede •' ; /.„_-.; King's Speech