PADLOCK'S KEY

NZ Truth, Issue 1175, 7 June 1928, Page 13

PADLOCK'S KEY

And Puppet's Fall From Grace (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Rep.) Marionette throughout the season has' performed like the pro-verbial-dog. . HER owner has certainly no reason to thank his lucky star, though it all goes to- show how some owners are more fortunate than others. It seems hardly credible that less than seven months' ago Marionette gave Padlock twelve yards' start m a mile and a-quarter, that gelding m the interim qualifying for the best race m the Dominion — the New Zealand Cup, while the Mangere mare still battles along unsuccessfully m "mug" company. Still, it happened, a"s all followers of the sport are aware, and now Padlock is the North Island hope for the next top-hole two-mile ,event. Certainly all horses cannot make the same improvement. Such a thing as a competitor going from rough company to a 4.26 class inside of half a year, as Padlock has done, may not happen again m a month of Sundays. \