AFTER THE PLATE

NZ Truth, Issue 1208, 24 January 1929, Page 14

AFTER THE PLATE

Gold Moneys Chance To Run Out of Hacks (From "N.Z. Truth's" Auckland Rep.) Though considered the best of good things for the Takapuna Hack Plate m the spring, Gold Money was touched, off by little more than a whisker for the stake. THUS he still remains eligible .for a similar event — rthe Wynyard Plate, run on the 'second day of the Takapuna Cup fixture., . * Since The Lover defeated her across the harbor,, the Paper Money filly acted as runner-up to Tcheka m the Queen's Plate mile at Ellerslie, which reads mighty like her being hard to dispose of on Tuesday next. j Nevertheless, she will not have matters all her own 'way, for among -the others are .Subdivision, a vastly im-. proved horse of late, and one which is staying- ; on ; better this year. : • ■He . isV; a speedy . beginner which counts for. .much on the .Shore track"; and m his case it is only a matter of whether he will?; see the seven furlongs right out with. 5.9 and give poundage away to- one of Gold Moneys ability. '';■"'■ The Begum; and Air King are ; also; good beginners' engaged, while ; the best of .the; others appears to • be Leitrim, Micrometer and Lido. ■...The last-named ran third,. to Tcheka and ; Gold ..Money m the ; Queen's Plate, and is orfe to come into calculations because she is a three-year-old with easy poundage. .".....•_ Subdivision and The Begum look the most likely pace-makers, but Gold Money: will probably be elected favorite * ■