DIATOMOUS WELL IN

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 37, 14 February 1933, Page 4

DIATOMOUS WELL IN

JUVENILE AT WANGANUI

(Special, From "Early Bird.") AUCKLAND, This Day. There is no better course in the Dominion for the brilliant beginner than Wanganui, especially in five-furlong races, where the horses run a furlong straight, then three furlongs round the top bend, and a short straight furlong sprint home. This is interesting in view of the fact that the Juvenile Handicap at Wanganui on Thursday is run over this journey, and, what is more to the point, that the speedy Diatomous is engaged. This Diacquenod two-year-old is admitted all round to be the fastest of his age, perhaps speedier than Dole, who showed such pace in his two successful outings at Ellerslie and afterwards in running second at Trentham. • . Handicapped at 9 3 at Wanganui on Thursday, Diatomous reads nicely placed to score the third win of his career. It was in the Welcome Stakes at Ellerslie a little over ' three months ago that he sprang into' prominence, a rattling good gallop bringing him into favour for that classic, and he ran up to that trial in the .race. He showed a wonderful burst of, speed and then he ran off the course at' the home turn.- Even then Princess Doreen only just got to him to make a deadheat of it. • Diatomous was not started again till the Auckland Summer Meeting, when h& ana Princess Doraen again disputed the finish, the Jatter finally winning by a head. At their nest meeting in the Royal Stakes on. the final day at- Ellerslie Diatomous turned the tables decisively, winning comfortably, with Princess- Doreen collapsing -in the final stages. - .It was at Trentham last month that Diatomous. spoilt his record, for he finished but of a place 'in the Wellington Stakes. when backed as a certainty. In that event he was on his toes at the start and did notget away with his usual alacrity, but he quickly raced to the front and was the leader till near the distance, when, he gave in with very little fight. That form was not his true form. Certainly it was miles below the showing expected from him after his brilliant displays at Ellerslie.: ■ y, • ■ • : Further interest is lent to the Juvenile at Wanganui the first day through the presence of Golden Hair, the winner of the Taranaki Stakes, but her. penalty has brought her within one pound of Diatomous.. Under the weight-for-age scale the Hawera filly meets Diatomous at 21b worse than standard poundage, and as Diatomous' -won two classics and was beaten.a itead in another, whereas the'filly has won;the Taranaki Stakes, her only classic success, the advantage really seems t6 he with Diatomous. .Diatorn.ous has ,only ,to reproduce his Ellerslie form .to 'make: him next to an unbeatable proposition in the Wanganui Juvenile. Ije should set a merry pace round the big bend at Wanganui, and,unless Golden Hair has improved out of all sight lately, he is not likely to find trouble from that quarter.