DERBY STAKES FOR PACERS

NZ Truth, Issue 1145, 10 November 1927, Page 12

DERBY STAKES FOR PACERS

Can Daphne De Oro Repeat Her Great Northern Win?

(By "The Toff.") For the first time since its inauguration m 1914, the New Zealand Derby Stakes will be worth 1000 soys.

THAT is the prize offered by the New Zealand Metropolitan Trotting Club for the big three-year-old contest which will take place at Addington on the second day of the important carnival fixture. At time of writing,, there is no word of the crack two-year-old filly Enawah, whose absence from the Great Northern Derby was due to her being lame. ' ■ It was caused through a mishap of some kind, and as the filly has had to be stopped m her work it seems unlikely that she. will be brought to Addington. With the daugliter of Peterwah left m her stajl, Daphne 'de Oro, winner of the Great Northern contest, occupies the pedestal. In all her races she has exhibited a lot. of ability, and she will take a tremendous amount of beating this week. She is a small filly, but she is a dandy pacer, is well and she can stay. She beat Donard, Harvest Child and Monopole at Auckland, but at Addington it is expected that she will have two new customers. One is that splendid-looking colt Don Derby, whose doings at Kurow have made everybody who i saw him name him as the winner j of the Derby. He was carded to race at the recent trotting fixture' m the limestone city, -but unfortunately he was walking the reverse Avay when the field was des-

patched; consequently no line on his ability could be obtained. Aside from his Kurow success, aided by the fact that he is a highly-bred, good-looking colt, there is nothing m the way of a past record to enthuse over. His presence will no dotibt give the classic added impetus, and if he can make a race of it with Daphne de Oro his doings will delight his owner and the public. The other newcomer is Return Voyage, a colt by Happy Voyage from Pearl Pointer, and a really nice colt he is. He was out m front for ten furlongs at Oamaru, and m addition to being a topping pacer he is good-mannered. At present he has not shown enough speed to warrant anyone backing him to win the Derby, which looks as" if DAPHNE DE ORO, DONARD and perhaps DON DERBY will fight out the finish.

• The pacing gelding-, Tannhauser, lias joined R. B. Berry's team. When trained by Jack Shaw at Auckland, he showed a fair amount of ability, but before he could show his worth he broke down" very badly. Since then he has been running- on the hills. That was two years ago.