PETER MAXWELL'S FORM

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

PETER MAXWELL'S FORM

Some Prpiiiise Over Gduntry 1' GREAT NORTHERN HOPE

I (From "Truth's" Special Auckland Representative.)' m> It is really nothing short of amazing how a race can improve f some horses. Peter Maxwell is the latest example. . . ■.

|iF it is possible, to imagine Peter ft I Maxwell improving at the same ■t rate m the future as he did from E the first day at, Paeroa to the second, ■ tbtn his people can look , forward to an early run of success. H| Not oniy the Mahgere and Autumn Steeplechases' at EUerslie, |^B but also the Great Northern later H| on, would be m the safe keeping of the aged, son of Marble- Arch. It is nothing new for Peter Maxwell 'show marked improvement from days racing to another. : W^% He has done so before, and though F l elverything may have been m order, I; tlie task qf convincing^ the authorities f«. sy»me years ago — when it was conI sidered proper to inquire intp>inconsifitent rurthing— would not have. been : easy. '"■ "' ' ' . , ' .'";. Nowadays such inquiries are seldom heard of,' uhless the public • make such a pronounced demon- ■ stration that the stewards wake up to the fact that it might be just as well to ask a few questions. 1 Peter s Maxwell started m both fcßlp/iplechases / at Paeroa, and there ! - ; ■' T^.y*have been some excuse for hi? cjR-eful display oyeivthe brush country cTn thje opening ' day; Vseeing that . he as a; beginner at the game. /I Nevertheless, on that mqderate form |A -T-he was a poor third .to King Abbey j ■ and Missl IV^elva, .the judge 'declaring H him a. distance away from the second H horse— Petei* Maxwell had no right to

carry £484 10s more on the second clay than he did on the first day. Yet that was what actually happened m a totalisator turnover of £3544, compared with £3050 m his first attempt.; , Everybody, who had the courage to support Peter Maxwell when he wiiii rrust have been acquainted with the fact that his rider was going to, m.ak'i a bold attempt to keep him up with the leaders. Those were Rennie's tactics on the second day,- with t(ie result that Peter Maxwell fenced more • boldly and finally made it so hot .for King Abbey that the latter was beaten to a frazzle. ■- "Peter"- only had to/go at an easy p? cc to . jog horn"?'; m f r'dnt. .Prom a time standpoint, Peter Max■wtll must have "shown, over a second better 'to each half-mile improvement i fiom one day to the other. He was; fully' six seconds away, third, when King Abbey ran 5.6 for. about two and a-half miles, ... while he showed 6.5 when' ho bobbed up comfortably over about three miles. On that comparison there is certainly some hope of Peter Max- , ■ well doing even better and gathering m a few more cross- coffntry events. Yet there is a section of the public who may have something to say unless Peter Maxwell mends his inconsistent ways. '