BEAUTIFUL!

NZ Truth, Issue 1143, 27 October 1927, Page 9

BEAUTIFUL !

Position Is Over TheOdds Surprise was expressed m New Zealand at the running of Limerick m the Metropolitan under the conditions that prevailed. TT will be recalled that it rained 1 throughout the day preceding the race and up till late m the forenoon on the day of the event. Burdened with 9.5 m the mile and five-furlong race, it was asking too much of him to run. Yet Limerick did run — and right gallantly into second place, after being seriously m trouble at the crucial stage. Questioned on their return home, the owner and trainer stated that they were very averse to running the four-year-old, but the fear of nasty comment over-ruled their better judgment. It is a fine state of affairs when an owner has to all but murder a good horse just because he is heavily backed by outsiders. However, that is just the situation that arose with Limerick. Pantheon's owners did not worry about the betting public — or their own wager, either — so Knight and Jonas, practically non-bettors, had no reason m the world to worry about outsiders. Outsiders don't pay the piper for the training of a horse and when the conditions warrant withdrawal an owner should never hesitate. Otherwise he will be lost — or a good horse may be. Trainer Woods has tired of the winter boom, Thurnus, which is being returned to his owner.