TWO-YEAR-OLD CHAMPION

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

TWO-YEAR-OLD CHAMPION

did not fill investors with any great hopes regarding her prospects. l She was the outsider of the party. She had run a fairly good seven furlongs m company with .Town Bank four days before the race and her immediate connections held out some hopes. . The race itself was no great test, for it took 2.41, the sectional times being comparatively slow: 2 furlongs, .28 1-5; 3 furlongs, 42; 4 furlongs, 56; 5 furlongs, 1.11; 6 furlongs, 1.24 3-5; 7 furlongs, 1.37 3-5; 1 mile, 1.513-5; 9 furlongs, 2.3 3-5. '' „.;■ Had ..the rider of Queen Arch made the pace more solid out m ,Mllillllilil!ililil!i:ill[ll!l!l!i[llllllil]lil^

Commendation and Lysander AWAPUNI TEST THIS MONTH, j With Easter running- over^ the fact has been established that on performances Commendation and Lysander are the twp;i|est two^ year-olds.- /

>7 GMMB.NDATION went to Riccar- \_^ tori and won the Champagne there with infinite ease, while at aEliersiie Lysander, getting away well, won. the similarly nimed event. ■'._'•' A meeting between the pair is ■ now wanted to decide which is the ]: better, v v .

This meeting will be brought about at Awapuni thif month m the Sires' Produce Stakes providing all goes? well with botl youngsters m the meantime. Mr. Currie, owner of Liysander, alsc bre d Commendation, arid h,e is anxious ' to show that he . displayed the better judgment by

selling the Limpnd two-year-old and

keeping Motley's brother. ' On the other hand, Mr. Gaisford is just as anxious to show Mr.Gurrie/that m -selling. Commendation he made an error. . Awapurii; is going, to be - the testing ground and the race for this, year's Sires' .Produce Stakes is going to be ;the best ;since the year The Hawk, Absurdum arid. Tamatete battled out the , finish— the: year, by the way, m which iGray, 'on; vAbsurdum, was responsible for the best piece of Tiding "Truth"' has ever witnessed. ,> ■ > ■ ; . • THE northerner, Te - Kawaria, failed at Tauherenikau, and couldn't do better than run two fourths. . On the first day he missed the jump put, and his pilot was using the stick on him before they had travelled a couple of furlongs, but on the' second day he had every chance. ' ..