GREAT PARRISH

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 813, 6 November 1929, Page 13

GREAT PARRISH

Auckland Youngster in Rare Form FINE DERBY PROSPECT While it is admitted there are some fine three-year-olds to be found in the South Island for the forthcoming New Zealand Derby contest, it is exceedingly doubtful if one can be found equal to the task of silencing the Mangere champion Great Parrish. The handsome son of Guy Parrish— Bertha Belle, half-brother to Great Bingen and Co., has come through a good preparation in approved style, and his high-class achievement recently at Claudelands and Alexandra Park, certainly point to J. T. Paul having a rosy chance of capturing the 1929 blue riband at Christchurch, to say nothing of his prospects of also annexing the clasic at Epsom in December. Guy Parrish’s son looks the real aristocrat, and since he made his first acquaintance of a race track at Te Aroha last year has been a public favourite. In his earlier starts he ran greenly, but his owner-trainer was patient with the valuable youngster, and after failing again at Cambridge, the colt made amends by landing a double at Hastings in June. After seeing the performance on the second day, when he came from behind a field and beat them by sheer grit and determination, “Abaydos” ticked him off as a future champion. Delivering the Goods When beaten at the earthquake meeting, the three-year-old put up a sound go for ten furlongs, and good judges were of the opinion that he would soon make amends for that reverse. This he did at the Waikato fixture by winning over ten furlongs, and then at Epsom he set the hall mark on his prowess by playing with some classy pacers, to win in a tick over 3.28 for a 12-furlong journey. He beat Belle Ax worthy pointless, and to prove that the mare was the goods she romped home the following day with the Derby candidate out of the road. Purser, the Southern fancy for next week’s classic, is a fine pacer, and when the Man-o’-War gelding gets on the journey smartly, it takes a good one to head him off. Royal Silk and Ngingo Ngingo have successes to their credit also, but while Purser should hold them safe, the recent form of the Aucklander, Great Parrish, is of such merit as to suggest he will be “crowned” at Addington.