VAUXHALL HANDICAP

Otago Daily Times, Issue 26556, 3 September 1947, Page 8

VAUXHALL HANDICAP

Fine Night Among Prospects FIT HORSE FOR SATURDAY Nineteen horses have been paid up for in the Vauxhall Handicap at Wingatui on Saturday and although a number of them have engagements earlier in the day a good field should go to the post. Two of the topweights in Wee Mac and Whakawatea are engaged in the hurdles and may be missing here. Sandy’s Pride did not win at the National meeting but raced well enough to suggest that she has prospects here. She won at Waimate in July. Connaught raced fairly consistently last season for two wins and a number of placings. Triumphal and Desert Victory do not make any special appeal, but Stabilisation, with 8.7., must be placed among the possibilities. She finished in a number of places last season and at the Ashburton meeting in June she finished second to Lalla Meer over 1,1 miles, finishing very solidly after a slow beginning. Of those lower down in the weights Fine Night, with 7.7., would be the hardest to head off if he ran up to what he has shown on the track. It is significant that the connections of the Nightly mare have not hesitated to express confidence about her prospects in some )f her recent races, proving that she has shown them some good trials.