SHY MISS MANDANE

NZ Truth, Issue 1103, 20 January 1927, Page 9

SHY MISS MANDANE

Will She Come Home Again?

On her best three-year-old form, the Panmure-Cherry Mart mare, Mandane, certainly promised to do better than her record of this season indicates. T

THERE was merit In several of her ; performances ;. of last season, especially when she captured the Pendalton ten furlongs at Riccarton from Star Stranger, Royal Divorce and other proved horses m 2.5 1/5. ■■ ■. . Then at .Ellerslie she made a. great fight of the G.N. Derby finish . 1 with 'Star ' 7 Stranger ■;' and: went ■ 'under- by a head only to the. son of Martian in -a field which 'included ; good handicap winners. / Since that time/ however, Mandane has failed to come up to requirements,, despite the fact that she., gives encouragement In her track essays. . She- failed to get in^the money when started at. theT recent Auckland Cup fixture, though ( up reasonably

close to the fourth horse m the Summer Cup.- ■.■■• 7 The hay daughter of Panmure still has soriie staunch admirers left for the Wellington Cup; but by no stretch of imagination has her recent > form indicated that; she /canTadd such to her record.'--' ''''■'.■.'•"':■'' Tl£ she does do the trick it will serve to knock form bandy once more, as haß been the case almost throughout the season m important events. ''>•■'.'■ Her sex seems often againstv Mandane being caught at her best. She will be ridden by Tyoung Driscoll m; the Wellington Cup and any chance she may. have should not suffer on the score of horsemanship. ,