RAILWAY FIELD

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 301, 21 December 1939, Page 4

RAILWAY FIELD

Favourite Should Be Our Jean BRILLIANT SPKINIER TE AWAMUTU POINTERS (Special to ••Chronicle.") The manner in which Our Jean scored in the sprint at Te Awamutu may well cause a revision of preconceived ideas about her ability Lo win the Railway Handicap. Hitherto it ; was considered she was a bit too unicertain at the barrier, 'that doubt ■ still exists, despile the fact that she Igot away all right last Saturday, but :ihe manner in wifich she outclassed I the Held proved her to be in a elase iright on her own. ■ Our Jean's position with half a milt Ito go was still apparently hopeless iyet she won, and won easily. Jusi 'how much extra ground she had t< ‘travel can be imagined. She went 'round practically tne whole field am linen finished in the centre of th< 'track. This feat had to be seen u Ibe believed, yet had there been an |other 50 yards to go she would havi Iwon by lour or five lengths, hei actual winning margin being a leng-ti land a-quarler. i In her great tnumph Our Jean cat riea 8.7, and a light rehandicap of < I couple of pounds in the Railway Han l.licap brings her impost to 8.2, so sh( | wnl still be 51b. below her winning I weight of last week. She now ha ■Jib. over weight-lor-age. 'ihaishoulc '.not bother her, although it is not oftei I that such races as Railway Hand.c ,j 'are won with over the scale weig..t !Nevertheless, Our Jean should be th jjuvourite next Tuesday, Going t«» Taranaki ! Brazen Bold, runner-up lo Ou I Jean, is not engaged al Ellerslie, ln« lTaranaki trip being his holiday pro gi anime i Games finished third and he gave . surprising display for a horse that h<u 'not leveaicd particularly smart sjirinl •mg ability. He was up third wim tw« (furlongs io go, but tne three-year-oh i Brazen Bold and Foxmond were thre< (lengths ahead of him at that stage, si ion this effort he should be capabu of a repeat performance in the Rail | way Handicap. I Blonde Princess was always faith ‘well placed last Saturday, albeit wilt Ja ban barrier marble she was alway. outside of two or three horses, so he 'close fourth was a satisfactoiy effort 'Foxmond was very disappointing, al ■though on this occasion her owne Jhad the satisfaction oi seeing he: (leave the barrier and get to the Iron 'with a oiilliant sprint from near th< (outside. Incidentally the second, thin and fourth horses were badly drawl ’at the post, and the cutting off of thi .inside horses soon after the start tell (its own story. Prominent Failures I It was this factor, perhaps, that accounted lor the faiiuie of Suieimai (prominent early), Orwere, Pa lust re Miss Te Koura and Beau Repaire, 10. the last named did well after bcm; hast early. Orwere did not make th' acceptance for the Railway, but h I w ill be prominent on the later da' 'at headquarters. Palustre becaim I prominent at one stage last Saluiday • out from ail accounts the stable i j much more optimistic over its othe representative, Bronwen, who has al • ready won three races this season i under different track conditions. • It wifi be seen that the Kailwa; • Handicap position is now dominate' j entirely by Our Jean, for it appear jon her Te Awamutu running tfiat i I she is anywhere near the middie u (the Railway field at. the home turn sh< 'ought to win. She now- promises t 1 I oust Disdain for favouritism. 11 J [ only in the past few years that th sprint at the VVaipa meeting ha ' actually developed into a real trial fo 'the Ellerslie sprint. Three years ag l | Adalene was second in the Te Awa ; mutu sprint and then won the Rail • way at long odds, and 12 months late •Stretto meiely toyed with both field: ■A year ago Bachelor King surprise ■at Te Awamutu and then missed a ; Ellerslie. Last year's Railway winner ! Disdain, did not compete at Te Aw a mutu. JOCKEYS AT AWAPUNI I RIDERS FOR SATURDAY For the opening day of the Mana watu Rating Club's summer meeting jto commence at Awapuni on Satui day. (he following riding engagement I have been announced :- | B. H. Morris; Kotua. Laughing Las: The Bigot, The Buzzer, La Bru, Mali j Kafur. ! VV. J. Broughton: Sceptre, Play Or Talenta. Russian Ballet, Scandal. ' W. Jenkins: Deflation. Duncannor I Gold Chase, Charles Edward, Cautioi JTau Uru. ; VV. E. Pine: Golden Ridge. J. Chaplin: War Lap. ! G. R. Tattersail: Anita Foe, Fail i vette, Siegmund, Sudan. I W. J. Stevens: Renascor, Goldbun | S. Waddel: Aoronit. i S. Wilson: Beau Courier, Lor (Cavendish. Counter. j C. G. Goulsbro: Galteemore, Silve ' Lance. Croupisino, Trench Law. | P. Burgess: Pearl of Asia, Colfor iMoradabad. Prime Quality. L. J. Ellis: Beau Ciel. Great Legior I P. Atkins: Dainty Sue, Absolve, Sij (low, Globe Trotter. i A. Sagar or R. Hawkins: Acrobat. 1 H. N. Wiggins: Coionei Bogey. | R. F. Horne: Deflation. ( D. Redstone: Raeburn. • N. Cavaney: Thrasos. | J. Williamson: Du Maurier. j H. Stewart: Alchemic.