PILLIEWINKIE'S CUP CHANCE

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

PILLIEWINKIE'S CUP CHANCE

New Zealand Horses at Randwick WHEN RVNWMEDE MEETS MANFRO

.Next week wiU, find racegoers having plenty to keep them interestedwithout going outside the Dominion.

U^HPEVE^; 'twere 'is going to be rac--1 * : r4rig'-kt;Randwick at the same time, and ■ thjit racing;.' is going to' .have a peculiar' interest for New Zealand. .■.■..' The: t)bmihion.;;ng.s candidates engaged m several->of, the raceg, ..but most notice will be:vtak«Jii of the; doings of PilHewinkie,,'Runnymede arid Te Monanui. .. ' ,;■'■''::•■ '•'-•'•'■ :,•': ...•;• : Runnymediß will b 6 the first to do battle for this cdUntry. He is to m.eet the. brilliant-r-but cranky-^-Manfred iri the St, Leger on Saturday \yeek. , Just how the New Zealand gelding will get on is a matter for conjecture. If Manfred leaves the starting-*. . gate cleanly he will no doubt win, but there is some doubt about it. Rurinymede, on the other' hand is next door to a .certainty to go away and whether Manfred is with him or -not he will put up a great fight. . A "yeek or so back the. cables stated that Runnymede was sprinting exceptionally well, but since then there haa been no word as to his progress m his preparation. No news is good news, so perhaps he is going along well. iWhenV : .Mar|f red won the A.J.C. .-. D,erby jt.-was estimated that he was left one .hundred yards and then;.; WOn. '.-'.: ' . ' . „." /'•'■', „,.;' „ ,•.-..- t ;- ; •,:•' . Runnymede won :the.: N-.Z; Derby and won m jufife^ a; fraction better time than, that -which- Manfred established, - lie was.-not. -not- pushed oyer the l^st fui'iong, either. .-• ...-■- : . i The RandjviCk race will show how good Runnymede actually is.

"Truth" considers him a good horse, but Manfred must be a better one. . It is to be hoped that the cranky one gets away. ;. If He does, he will . have a race fn front of him. Pilliewinkie, with his 9.13 has the hardest part to do to win :the Sydney Cup, but his connections .are ".confident and so. are the books — judging by $heir prices! • '- ,-••■■■ • ■ -' -,- carryng. big' weights have won previous Sydney Cups, and. why sTiould Pilliewirikie be the exception? His running on the first, day of , the meeting when he meets Windbag at weight-for-age, will give punters confidence — or a sick headache! . Te Monanui, the butter-land hope, will be m receipt of a stone from Pilliewinkie m the Qup. On" the form both have shown m New Zealand Te Monanui, would perhaps be getting: seven pounds . from Pilliewinkie, but on the; form of the latter jn Australia a stone perhaps gives Piiliewinkie rather the best of it. -■ So it looks on figures as though PHliewinkie! will -finish m front of the New Plymouth -owned horse. The big two*- year-old race, the Champagne Stakes, has next to no interest for New Zealanders. ■ Two or three owners will, however, follow -the "doings of "the unbeaten two-year-old Rampion, as he will be brie that horses gowned m the .dominion will have tp meet when they go to Sydney next spring.