HEMISPHERE IS SMART

Otago Daily Times, Issue 27291, 18 January 1950, Page 7

HEMISPHERE IS SMART

SPRINGFIELD GLOBE GELDING PROSPECT FOR FORBURY PARK Included in V. Leeming’s team for the Forbury Park meeting is the smart four-year-old Hemisphere, who has won two of his five races this season and been placed in another. His first start was in the Winchester Handicap at Washdyke in October and he lost his chance by breaking badly. He was second favouritfe on the win machine. At Geraldine he was sixth in the order of betting on the win machine and never looked likely.

His first placing for the season was in his next race, the Wakanui Handicap, at the. Ashburton meeting last month, and he finished second to Victory Song, from whom he received 24 yards. He was 2/2 in the betting. At the Kurow Jockey Club’s meeting he won both trotting events on the card. In the Waitaki Trot he beat Green Spear, the winner of a double at the recent Vincent meeting, and, penalised 24 yards, he won the H. J. Delargy Trot from Banquet Hall in impressive style. He made a particularly smart beginning and had something more than his winning margin in hand.

A bay gelding by Springfield Globe, Hemisphere is from Kushanahi, by Grattan Loyal from No Fear, by Another Dillon from Ma Cushla, by Nelson Bingen from Ma Belle, by Abbey Bells. Likely Sort

The Josedale Dictator gelding Dictation has had nine starts this season for a win and three placings. His win was scored in the Tahuna Handicap at the Forbury Park meeting in October, his winning margin being no less than 15 lengths after Breaking three times. He is engaged in the Vauxhall Handicap on Saturday and provided he keeps to a level gait he will be a hard horse to beat. There is no doubt about his speed.

Holding His Form One of Kublai Khan’s best recent performances was his second to Desert Flight in the Tramway Handicap, of two miles, at the Auckland meeting in December, and his second 'at Timaru on Saturday shows that he is holding his form. A five-year-old by Marco Polo. Kublai Khan is from Black Surprise, and is trained by M. McTigue. He looks one of the possibilities for the Forbury Handicap on Saturday.