THE EX-AUCKLANDER APOLOGUE.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 955, 25 June 1908, Page 5

THE EX-AUCKLANDER APOLOGUE.

According to the Indian correspondent of the “Australasian,” the best accounts are to hand from Western India of Apologue, who landed there in good order, and has continued to do well since his arrival. The horse is at present at Poona, but one hears that as soon as the present terrific heat breaks with the advent of the rains, and railway travelling is rendered somewhat less of an ordeal, he may be sent to the more salubrious Bangalore, in Southern India, to summer. They say that he shows no signs of the lameness from which the Australian papers reported him to be suffering, and his friends also say that they have no fears about his standing a preparation for his big engagement in December—the Calcutta Viceroy’s Cup. If he can be got to the post .fit and well they say that he will spreadeagle his field, and make a hack of Fitzgrafton. It is a good deal to promise for a horse in his first year in this country. On book form he beats anything that we have in India at the moment, but there is always a very big “ if” with an unacclimatised horse, and we so often see brilliant performers fail to come to within 71b or near of their real merit. Aucklanders would like to read of Apalogue following up his Melbourne Cup win with a victory in the Viceroy’s Cup.