FIVE-YEAR-OLDS
UNIQUE RECORD IN THE AUCKLAND EASTER TABLE OF SUCCESSES Three-year-olds in the Easter Handicap number but three, and yet they are a very likely trio. They are Joy King, Magna Charta and High Pitch, and they promise to make a showing. In the past horses of this age have had their share of success in this event, as the table set out below will show. The four-year-olds too have done well in the Easter Handicap, and in
numbers alone they ought to go close to tilling the whole of the three places, for there are no less than nine of this age accepted for: Day Guard, Oreum, He Choucas, The Thorn, Merry Jest, Papa tu, Serang, Whenuanui, and Mosaic. THE WINNING AGE But the five-year-olds have had the most say in past Easter Handicaps, and this division has on this occasion only four horses to carry on the record. These are Master Doon, Quincoma Nancy Lee and Ring the Bell, and haps this is actually—on paper—the weakest section in the race. Reremoana, Royal Divorce, Civility. York Abbey and King Merv make a formidable quintette to uphold the honour of the six-year-olds, and the hope of the aged division are Rapine. Transformer and Hipo. Now that the list is complete, it is time to produce
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 20, 14 April 1927, Page 6
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