LIMERICK TURNS TABLES

NZ Truth, Issue 1063, 8 April 1926, Page 13

LIMERICK TURNS TABLES

Surprise Victory m Challenge Stake^ - (From "Truth's" Special Christchurch Representative.) , ! r Piinters got a body blow at Riccarton on Tuesday when the 1 v red-hot favorite Comihendation was beaten in 'the Challenge Stakes. ■ . '." : ■■■••' * ' ■ ■■'"'■ ■ ■ ."' ■ ;■ •■ - A _ .-. . .■_ ... :' .; .:;:.„ „!:,' ....,, j^..i FOR ;the first half-mile of the race to stop.. . .. „ ',^ ... ;_. "■; .-V. ' there was nothing to say that In fact, it looked very niuchaS' ; there was going to. be a boil-over. ' though"' ' he" were tilfnirig. it" m. ' / '%■ Coming into the "straight, hbwever, ' However, he went ' a»inV : and ' Commendation was hanging badly, was catc hing Limerick m every".' and from there on till the post he stride* / was boring out all the way. ; ■_ ' - '. ' . . ;-. The .distance, ..however, „. was. jtoo i Limerick threw, out a challenge - short, and at the post he was a length a furlong from the post, and when tothe bad. : x ' . his rider hit him" with the whip That Limerick won- on his merits he bounded through the air for there is no doubt, and now two-year-, about two lengths without touch- old form becomes more tangled. .:;.„ ., ing earth. , . • Limerick is' m at ParmerstohV ( He did this at Dunedin m February, and he , is to ■"> ak « the j YIPV I P- r;..---but not so boldly as on Tuesday. In the seven-furlong Sires',, Produce Then he went off at a terrific pace Stakes he will make it really merry, and overhauled and passed Coramen- Frbni, Palmerstbn North he is to go dation, which just for a second seemed on to Hastings.- • > '• ; -