RIGHT AGE

NZ Truth, Issue 1203, 20 December 1928, Page 13

RIGHT AGE

To Succeed In PAST HISTORY

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Auckland Rep.) ' If records have any bearing on j the probable reault of the Queen's I Plate, the opening event at Ellerslie, it seems hopeless, to go outside j '; 7 the three-year-old/^ivisipns for the ': [■ t winner. .-".'. '.. -| fiTUST to emphasize this -fact; it may be if -J mentioned that m the. last Aye ; years three-year-olds to win m sueff cession have been Suggestion, Degage, | Star Stranger, Magna Charta- and - Martarma. jj ■' The reason is not hard to find — the ecale of weights ia to the ad- - !'.. ' vantage of three-year-olds. If a horse has not run oyt of hackj? before reaching four years, then it is hot reasonable to ,expect It to be ■of .any great glass. 7 Modest Boy, 7Big Bertha. Komak, vArlkitba and Sa.ucy Lass have some form among tti'oipe above tender years for next. Wednesday's Plate, but the three-year-olds- will: 'appeal.* „ Those of that age include Cashier. Moore§fac, Tcheka, Briar Root and . Gold Money.- ■ ' ; •■ Cashier's thirdrto Prodice and Toxe- , ,'uma m the Great Northern Guineas '; over the course was convincing, while (at the Pakuranga meeting Tilley's rep-. \ resentative ran away; with a hack > ; stake over the distance. ■•'' Briar Root came from the back to !■■. beat Kilmezzo' and Go. over seven furlongs at Woodville, while both' Tcheka and GOld Money have placed form of V note this spring. Three m the picture for the hack mile this Boxing Day niay prove to be CASHIER, BRIAR ROOT, GOLD MONEY.