PARLIAMENTARY STAKES

Waipa Post, Volume XXIV, Issue 1681, 3 November 1925, Page 5

PARLIAMENTARY STAKES

REVIEW OF THE CANDIDATES. (ißy "The Guesser.) As the day of the great race is right at hand, a review of the candidates and their performances may assist readers in making a final selection!. i\ The invitation for nominations has closed with three willing performers, namely:— .„- :' I IHayseed, bay horse, 6 years, fcy 'Country Party—Agricultural Banks. ■ /Whiskers, grey horse, aged, by Reform—Vested Interests. Moustache, black horse., 6 years, by •; Liberal—Labour. , " ;; I saw Hayseed doing slow work the other morning, and on what I saw can give him no chance. He needs a good deal of sprinting to sharpen him up. f. In any case he seems to be somewhat out of his class. , , ! (Whiskers is a fair performer, his best form to date being the County j Stakes, which he won "on the bit," but ■ being an aged horse he is hardly likely to improve. Moustache won the Parliamentary Stakes three years ago in a field of. < three, including that good horse Massa. • Jonsing, who afterwards went a hit sore and had to/be spelled. I sawMoustache do a couple of miles the other morning, and but for a slight mistake at Borkins' Corner he put upa fine performance. I was not exactly satisfied with the track work, so wandered round to the stables to get the " straight griffin. Jim Clever, trainer of Whiskers, was optimistic about his charge's prospects, and said: "My horse is as fit as I can get him, and after the expeneince of last time I am relying solely upon him. Some people wonder why I did not start Massa in preference to Whiskers, but the fact is the big horsfr went off his feed .right after the last race, and I had to physic him. I will keep him for the Electric Stakes: hes, a moral for that. Be a bit with him this time." ' , . .'. I thought you would be interested to know something about the elect ot the other powerful stable sor I interviewed Slim, the head lad <>^ Mou stache's stable-I holdqf the trainer. Slim said: % d ° *<* c "*-: who hears it: my horse will win. He S, the real Slim polish on him.as yoa can see He won the event last time from a good field, as I consider Massa Jonsing a better horse at the distance S Whiskers -and Clever rtutrt £* horses Anyhow, Whiskers is a gre>, and I do not like grey horses Name me a good one. No, don't be silly. Gloaming is a bay. We are.putttjg our own apprentice, Cou Fusion on top, ond he will ride to orders. Moustache wm do his final gallop on the local track on Tuesday. Better come and see him: he will be ridden right out He's hat fit he wouldn't even blow a match out. anyhow, what does Clever know about training a horse? I»«JJ« Vested Interests is a producer, and they have made a lot of money out of lie r progeny; but, man, be wise-have a bit on our horse." That was a bit confusing, for I had learned in the hard school of experience not to back two horses in a thieehorse race, so I ambled round to Hayseed's stable, but found it deserted, with not even a feed of oats in the bin. I heard that Hayseed got out of his box and went for a ramble all on his own. I don't think he will be in a fat condition for Wednesday's big race.