TWO-YEAR-OLD CHAMPION

NZ Truth, Issue 1061, 25 March 1926, Page 11

TWO-YEAR-OLD CHAMPION

Is Commendation The Best? BIG CONTEST At |4I#RSLIE

[ Easter racing is not going to htelp much towards the solution of the problem of two-year-old form.

TO date it is most difficult to say which is our best youngster, but, notwithstanding His defeats a£ Ellerslie at Christmas, "Truth" looks to Commendation as the best of the bunch. , '. •. 'At Christmas only three horses were thought to be -m the running— Cpnimendation, Lysander and Joy King, tut now another couple have joined m! ' \ '.' . .' ; ..•...-. They are Limited and Aifssie-^ a youngster held m high regard ' up north. Commendation will be at Riccarton at Easier, 'arid he shoujd silence the .opposition down that way, thoiigh: he •will have to beat Limerick and Frpnt l'-iank. . . • At Ellerslie it Is going to be a different matter, and there should be a battle royalt

All' the cracks engaged m the Chanir pagne Stakes. ''up. '.north are reported to be \n great fettle, so the business should be settled once and for all. Then the next thing will be to get. Commendation to meet the winner— : (this is,' of course," assuming ■' .that Ccmmenda'tioii will win at Riccarton) •;— §rid the Question of two-year-old supremacy will be practically settled,. But unfortunately there is no othet? two-year-old race this year :. run under spe(?if»l weights with the above candidates engaged. Palmerston, has the nearest to it; with the Sires' Produce = Stakes, and included m the ehtiries" are Commendation, 'Lysander, and Limited. Here is a chance for Mr. Gaisford to wipe out that Boxing Day defeat, and on his home track, too!