PEGAWAY CONSISTENT

Taranaki Daily News, 22 November 1929, Page 5

PEGAWAY CONSISTENT

Struggling through hack scampers thai season he managed to scrape togethei £455, enough to pay his expenses for hit two season’s racing, but he showed thai his forte was middle distanres. It was not until he had reached his sixth year that Pegaway began to make a name for himself in open company, and then he enlightened the world when hs took the Plunket Handicap at Ellerslie He “missed” in the next race he was lined up for, but then he took three in succession and proved that he was a good proposition to go on with. Just “shy” of £2OOO that season, he had made a name for himself. The next season was doomed to be a bad one and in ten starts he could barely manage to . pay travelling expenses by running second in the Summer Gup to Mandane, though but a head separated them at the post. Seemingly Pegaway’a sun had set, but, held over to the spring of 1928, he made his presence felt by running a good third at the Waikato meeting and improving on that performance with a first the

Unplaced Queen’s Plate, 1 mile —• Unplaced Otorohanga Handicap, 6 fur — Unplaced Hangitiki Haandicap, To Kuiti, 6 fur — Ist Mangaiti Handicap, Te Aroha, 7 fur 00 3rd Wairakau Handicap, 7 fur 20 Unplaced Okoroiro Cup, 1 mile — Unplaced Puketaha Handicap, Waikato, 1 mile — Unplaced Rangiriri Handicap,, 1 mile — 3rd Jervois Handicap, 1 mile 25 2nd Carbine Plate, 1| miles 100 Unplaced Fitzroy Handicap, 1 mile ... — 455 At Six Years. Unplaced Welter, Avondale, 0 fur ......... —i Unplaced Nihotapu Welter, 7 fur — Ist Orakau Handicap, Waipa, 7 fur. 100 ; Unplaced Queen’s Plate, 1 mile — Ist Plunket Handicap, 1 mile 500 Unplaced Glasgow Handicap, 7 fur. — Ist Puketutu Handicap, TeKuiti, 7 fur 95 Ist Waitomo Handicap, 9 fur. 190 , Ist Herries Memorial Cup, 1 % miles 500 2nd Ohinemuri Cup, IV4 miles I'oo Ist President’s Handicap, Auckland, 1% miles 500 Unplaced Autumn Handicap, Iy, miles —, Unplaced Storey Memorial Cup, 1| miles — Unplaced To Rapa Handicap, 1 mile — 1965 At Seven Years. 2nd Summer Cup, Auckland, It miles 250 And nine unplaced perances 250 At Eight Years. >rd Cambridge Handicap, Waikato, 6 fur 35 z _ Ist Kirikirikiroa Handicap, 0 fur 175 Ist Christmas Handicap, Auckland, 1 mile 400 st Summer Cup, 1| miles .. 900 st Racing Club Handicap, iy 2 miles 1250 unplaced Grandstand Handicap, 1| miles — Ind Waihou Handicap, To Aroha, 6 fur 55 rd Thompson Handicap, 1 mile 100 Inplaced Autumn Handicap, 11 fur «— unplaced Awapuni Gold Cup, Is 4 miles ... — 2815 At Nino Years. st Bollard Memorial, Waikato Hunt, G fur. 225 st Cambridge Handicap, Wai- ■ kato R.C., 6 fur 245 470 Grand Total £5725

next day. That first merely paved the way to his best performances. • Stepped out at the Auckland Cup meeting on the second day he showed the way home in the Christmas Handicap to Toxeuma and Red Heckle;'made no bones about the Summer Cup, winning from Bright Glow; he outpointed Transformer and White Fang in the A.R.C. Handicap. It was a good year and another £2BOO was added to his record. This year, bearing the weight of nine years and looking to his tenth summer, Pegaway was to start with the Bollard Memorial at the Waikato Hunt gathering, and while he could not be left out of calculations, the public did not fully realise what a- good horse-, he was. He romped him and his meagre handful of admirers “collected.” At the Waikato R.C. fixture form gave precedence to scintillating performances of younger aspirants, and again Pegaway showed them the way home. Two starts and two wins! Surely it is not' beyond imagination to see Pegaway again hold his own with the best over middle distances, and his record entitles him to respect in anyfield up to ten furlongs. It was in 1920 that Pegawaay first saw light, and in. his six years of turf career he has won. for his owner, Mr. A. W. Prangley, the sum of £5725—a nice working margin that should leave no regrets. The following are the performances of Pegaway:— At Four Years. L n placed Hairiui Handicap Waipa, 6 fur — At Five Years. 3rd Bardowie Handicap, Waikato, G fur. 20 Ist Frankton Handicap, Waikato, 7 fur 105 Ist Orakau Handicap, Waipa, 7 fur

WINNER OVER ALL DISTANCES-■■■■-v'i PATIENT POLICY EXEMPLIFIED -■- : - _ - .. HIS WINNING DAYS NOT YET OVER ■ . ■ In.recent years there has been no more striking case of the value of the “patient policy” than in the case of the good Auckland galloper Pegaway, In his tenth year he is still able to hold his own with the smartest youngsters over sprint distances, and when we glance back at our speedsters of past years we find them in the' clover paddock or relegated to the position of hack hurdlers. Horses who have won renown against the best the Dominion has produced! Then we ask ourselves the value of that early speed that characterised the Absurd youngsters and in this day the Chief Ruler progeny. But Pegaway—how well he is named. Pegaway! Still he pegs?-, away and still he wins, and if his recent bold efforts can be guaged as any criterion of the possible powers of the valiant veteran, an ap- / preciable sum is yet to be added to the winning total of the son of ’ Lucullus. . . . . It is interesting to note that it was not until the fourth year of the gelding’s career that he was asked to race, and in that season he was seen under silk on only one occasion. Another year passed. / before he showed the sporting public that he was worth his salt, and in two more starts he had added a bracket—insignificant in it-; self, but meaning a lot—to his record. Another win was recorded to him and his tally stood: Four starts, two wins, a third and an unplaced performance.