Untitled

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume I, Issue 25, 17 January 1891, Page 1

To commence with, let me ask Mr. Knight if he ever saw a fourth or fifth rate three-year-old heading the list, and called upon to give lumps of weight away to horses of all ages. Leolantis, 3 yrs., gst 51b., has to give Antelope plb, Patchwork i slbs, Tamora 251bs, and Clarion, aged, who can gallop a bit, 31 lbs. Then Reprisal, Bst 61b, who never got over a mile, three-quarters being his best distance, is put at even weights with Coalscuttle, who won two races at the late Ellerslie meeting over a mile and a distance, and a mile and a half; also having to give a lot of weight to older horses that can gallop a bit. First-class horses can give a great deal of weight away to third and fourth rate ones, but inferior horses cannot do it, never mind how bad the others are. Taking a casual glance at the weights I think Antelope, Patchwork, Tamora, and Clarion have nothing to complain of.