TABS AND TOPICS

NZ Truth, Issue 1107, 17 February 1927, Page 13

TABS AND TOPICS

.mimimiiiiiiiiiiiimimmiimtiiimiiiiiimmiitiiiiinnimmiiiliiiiii!t<iiimi;iiii TOOL'S PARADISIC, which cost Ot- * way Falkiuer liOOOgns. hist November, won his first race for his new owner at Rosehill last Saturday. * * » . DOYAL DIVORCE will most likely be ** a runner m the sprint the second day at Woodville. ■.* * • THE Nelson meeting is always a *■ popular fixture. Next week there is a three-day gathering m the Apple City, and quite a good meeting will result. FIRST ACRE had two races at New Plymouth and ran badly. He looked well .enough, but apparently the looks belied his condition. He will be at Nelson next week. ■'• BERT MORRIS has been accused of riding a bad race on Grand Knight m the Stakes at New Plymouth. Thc English horse is. '-anything but an easy horse to ride, and. the .critics should remember this. ' • «., -.»■' RIDERS m the Jackson Stakes at Wanganui on Saturday , will be : The Hawk (R., Reed). Grand. Knight (B. H. Morris), Reremoana (J. Barry), Lysander (L. A. Pine) and Limited (L, G. Morris) ■''■■. ■ * * 7 •■'•;• TOWN BANK was expected to win a race at New Plymouth, but the best he could do was to get second, Then.it was only by Barry savirigVall the ground ancl riding him very hard that he; got there. * * * V IT was only patient riding that got Oration home at New Plymouth on Saturday. Had Roy Reed pulled the stick on the Australian-bred horse he would have shut up like, a book. . '#.", ".",'■■*-.",''. :*" '«r\OC." KNAPP took two hurdlers to .* J . New Plymouth and "won both races.. The first day the hitherto unreliable. Little River, won for, him/a nd on the. second Ardath was home first, all by himself. ,' TWO more of the Acre tribe won at A New Plymouth-^Royal ' Acre and . Miss Pat. .. ';' '"'. , ( ••' ;, -■'.-,-' ... * ■ •'.••.■ Y7IVO finished up her racing m hack " onmiianv' at New Plymouth, oil Saturday, when she won the concluding event of the day m a desperate finish. ■'""'• ''•••. '* " • ■ • * .''■'•-•" * *• '•. TWO more failures went down to the .'*• credit pf the Australian , gelding Skypoint at New Plymouth. He has speed, but is, not solid.