PUNCH GONE

NZ Truth, Issue 1108, 24 February 1927, Page 11

PUNCH GONE

Derby Must Have Fixed Him On recent running the Lysander we, knew at the end of last season and the beginning of this^is no more. '-, TAKE this, season, for instance. At Wanganui m the Guineas he nearly left Len. Pine behind at the start of the classic, and it was the same at Ellerslie; when the Avondale Guineas were decided. Came a hard race, In the Great Northern ! Guineas, and then after that a harder race in* the Great Northern Derby. The latter race must have taken all the sting out of the: Absurd colt. ' He came back to Wanganui looking much the worse for wear, and even when he raced at \ Trentham three weeks later he gave the impression he was all tucked up. On Saturday at ' Wanganui he went down ! sore and short .m his preliminary and for that reason was not liked. \ . 8 Failing to begin with his oldtime brilliancy he got up with the leader at the end of a furlong, but that is as far as it went. ■■' Turning into the straight he -was all out, and. he had nothing to spare, and though he stuck courageously to Reremoana it was not by any means the Lysander of old. ." Time alone will tell, but we hope that Lysander has not lost his punch. Mia Bella has weight, but she i& good oyer the sticks. . .' ■ ■■■■"■'■ ■'.-. ''.:■:' '*&'■.