ELEVATION AND THE DONCASTER HANDICAP.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 943, 2 April 1908, Page 6

ELEVATION AND THE DONCASTER HANDICAP.

So far as winning the Doncaster is concerned, I doubt his ability to do that with 91b over weight-for-age (writes “Pilot” in the “Referee”), notwithstanding that his sprinting form is undoubtedly of a high class. The Doncaster is a race that generally favours some of the leniently treated members of the older division, and the only three-year-old who ever won with anything approaching weight-for-age on his back was Sir William, who carried 8.4. Good colt as was Sequence, he just failed with 8.5, and therefore it will surprise me if Elevation succeeds with 9.1. However, Elevation’s presence will add interest to the weight-for-age races, and we shall see whether, as claimed by some New Zealanders, he is as great a sprinter as Mountain King.