SOUTHERN SIDELIGHTS

NZ Truth, Issue 1148, 1 December 1927, Page 13

SOUTHERN SIDELIGHTS

(By "The Toff.") Genevieve begins all right, but she soon gets the stitch. * # # Major Domo still wants to command the field, from the rear. He never was a forward gee-gee. * ' • . # * Kia Audubon should be m a dance hall. She can jazz pretty well. • * # * Len Wood made one bad break at Forbury and then ran second. * * # Grey wood soon will have his punters carrying firewood. * # • Jade is no jade. She will be all right at Christmas. * # * Dolores has learnt the art of breaking. She went a pitiful race on the first day at Forbury. * # * Sid Wilkes is not much good, but he was good enough to win at Forbury. * * * Peter the First has been trotting pretty good for J. Palmer at Christchurch. * * * Master Peter can go fast, but he still is unsteady. * * ♦• Four Bells is qualifying for the clock factory. He wants renovating. • * # * Nipper is a funny customer. * # * Omaha was m front for the first six furlongs of the mile saddle event at Dunedin and then stopped m disappointing fashion. * * # Queen's General is getting better. It looks as if J. Henderson has found the key to her. * # • Lady Embrace is a fast mare m saddle but there is always a doubt about her at the post. • • • Nelson Ata is all undone. He has lost confidence. aiIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIHIMIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIMIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII'ji

General Bingen had every chance m the St. Kilda Handicap at Forbury, but he was squarely beaten. * # * Nelson Mcßlwyn goes like a good horse. He is bred well enough to win good money. * ♦ # Sadie I-luon made an unexpected break three furlongs from home m the Progressive Handicap at Forbury. That was not her form. • • • Stockade Junior had to make the pace ag-alnst a high wind at Forbury and was then only narrowly defeated. He met a pretty good maiden. # # * Dahlia Dillon will be m the money at Christmas time. She is trained at Heathcote. • • # Avalanche is a pitiful case at the end of a two-mile journey. * * * Swiftbine still can make breaks. He looks as if he is never going to become solid. # # # Underviewer has done well for Bob To-wnley and will be In the picture before long. • • • Bell Harold still knocks up badly after going twelve furlongs. * * * Downcast seems to be on the down grade. * « # Trampfast proved at Forbury that he can mix it with the pacers, and they will get a headache before he is done with them. * • * Author Jinks went a leisurely pace over the first mile of the big race at Forbury. Then he cut loose and mowed down his field as if they were hitched to the sprinkler; but Dalnahine outstayed him m the stretch. • • • Fight Ever can still jig on the mark. Not very often, though. * * • Talent is sparring for victory. His turn soon. # # # Away had the opportunity of his life m the big race at Dunedin, but failed badly. # * # Kate Thorpe is not engaged for a first prize. She has got the hardest part to do. • • * Quality is a half-sister to Cardinal Logan, and judged by her victory at Forbury she is going to be pretty useful. • • • Desert Star is a solid customer who has got to be reckoned with at the Christmas meetings. •'• • • Acre will make distant fields look green before Christmas. He has come right. • • • Two miles is a furlong too far for Lingfield. # . # # Proud Ata got on the journey swiftly at Dunedin, but after being driven to have every chance he failed badly. # # # But for making a bad break nine furlonars from home, Young Blake would have been first home m the Dominion Handicap. # * # . Little Logan is proving a big investment for Harry Gaskill, and looks, like gathering more money. *# . * Terence Dillon was heavily supnorted In the mile event on the first xnv at Forhurv, but an unfortunate beginning deprived him of whatever chance he had. * * # Menernber, who usually is a smart beginner, . dilly-dallied on the mark m the Dash Handicap at Forbury and was koon out of action.