CAST IRON

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

CAST IRON

Royal Game Is Game It would be quite m order to term Royal Game a handful, but he is really a good handful. I IKE the majority of the horses that *-* carry the Ballinger livery, Royal Game has not been allowed to eat off his head m idleness. He is m the North Island one day and 'way down south the next. Work is his middle name, but though according to all rules of the business he should be a cripple, he stands up to it — and, what is more, thrives on it. ! Since this season opened, Royal Game has been busy moving around the two islands and all the time he has been picking up stake money. He came back to Trentham after a pretty strenuous trip down south, and when he stepped out on the track he was like brand-new. Run m the mile and three-furlong race the first day, he was well back at the finish, but on Monday he led them home m the mile. It was his gameness that gave him the victory, and any amount of other horses would, have been beaten. Every credit is due to his trainer, Harry Pritchard, for the way he turns him out. WATCH WHAKARITE! VS7HAKARITE is a hack worth taking w notice of. Beaten only m the last stride by Branson on the first day at Te Rapa, he just failed to get up m time next ; day with a late run. ' He is one of the Valkyrian tribe.