SOUTHERN SIDELIGHTS

NZ Truth, Issue 1146, 17 November 1927, Page 12

SOUTHERN SIDELIGHTS

(By "The Toff.") CUNNY JIM. How we envy the punt- ! •^ era. We don't think. * # • Lady Fan is all right when she has her evening dress on. That is not very often.. ' : Count Dee is an unreliable racehorse. ' ' # # . . • • Bridget Galindo is old but honest, but not fast. • ' *■ ■ #' ' * Nelson McKinney gets the stitch at the end of twelve furlongs. # # # Nourmahal wanted to fall to pieces at the end of the Governor's Handicap at Addington, but E. C. McDermott managed to keep her together till she had passed Dickson. #.« • • Real the Great makes too many breaks to be a good trotter. # * * Herbilwyn started on three occasions at Addington and broka badly every time. # * * "Wild Hebe is a dot-and-carry-one kind that would keep a fellow poor. .# # ♦ Duke Bingen is good, but is too unlucky to win races. # * # Bingen Lad is honest, but he lacks the necessary speed. - ' . # . * * Event will win the first time he leaves the mark. # * # High Jinks is on a mark that has him scratching to win a race. ■ ♦ # ■ ■ ■■ # Dalmeny is good but he is too unlucky to win a race. ■ .. # # * Shine Soon has developed a splint. #.• . # .Final MfcKinney can go fast. She is a high-class sprinter. # * * Auguste Dillon is like the girl that went to the races. She Is found out. ' # #■ # Countryman has his punters carrying- their swag. # # # Talent is a money-getter. • * * Trenand is where the others can always beat him. # « • Talaro was off color at the Cup meeting. # * # Escapade never won a race at the big fixture. She will come into her own. ■ * * * ',■ Methven's hope, Man-o'-War, upheld ! the honor m the New Zealand Trotting Cup. He is a game old battler. # # # Great Bingen went good m the Cup, badly m .the Free-for-AII, and. really good m the Christchurch Handicap. . . •■•#■' ■•• • There were five spills going out of the straight at- Addington. It is time the turn was improved. ' # . # • Binscarth goes like a boy with his dad after him for a" mile and threequarters — then he falls to bits. #•# * ■ Wenlo is a bad case.' The excuse book is closed. ■ « ♦ •

Orphan is going to make good. Next year he will race for rich prizes.

Colene Pointer is. on. the road to Cup class. She is real and a great stayer.'

■ ■ * .'.••"■ * .'■ Evelyn Locanda is : worth owning. She is a good pacer. ■/' ' , ■• ■■■■■ •'■'..# ' ■ • Amaris will win races when he strikes a class that suits him. '

■ ;'•■. * . ■ ■•' ...■- • ■>- Clonmel is a chicken-hearted customer. . „'-. . ■

Nighborn is a .dead game old trotter that will not be denied. : - , N ••••'■ * ' '•■ • * / Our Lady has lost her manners at the barrier. She has. turned funny.

Cannonball will get more, chips before the season is concluded. He has tons of speed and he can stay: * * ■. # ' * ' Lee Todd is where the others can beat him. * ■ ■. #■■•*•■ Bonny Spec is no spec for poor punters. '•...■'. Audominiqn was all to' pieces at the Cup meeting. >(< 3fJ 5fE * ' Toung Blake was as stiff as a barber's pole at the Cup meeting. ' One of the popular wins at Addihgton was that of Acre. He was well driven by B. Jar den. * * * D. Withers got knocked about when Sahib was brought down m the Hornby Handicap at Aldington. * # * . Omaha will have to improve' to get any money. Avenger is not racing up to. track form.. He had every chance on the last day at Addington and then got beaten. , .. ; ■'■**■■ •■ # . # ' Pan Van is a good pacer, but .Jie Is far removed from being a champion. ■/'■■■* # • Glandore left the mark on the last day at Addington and then left his feet when he had gone a furlong. '."■#. * • Dr. Dillon wants a dose of his own medicine. It might kill him. * * # Author Jinks is an aspirant for Cup honors. * . *. . . • William the Great < will make the punters listen m before the season is much further advanced. * # # Harold Thorpe was found out at the Cup meeting. The others, called his bluff and found him with a pair of sevens. They held aces. . ■ * ■ *' ■ .# ..'■•' Logan Holme is real, but he now is where real horses measure etri.de for stride with him. ■- * ■■'■ ' • ■ • Afljacious is good, but he 1b funny. Ha Mas his good days and his tad