MAY SPREADEAGLE 'EM

NZ Truth, Issue 1189, 13 September 1928, Page 13

MAY SPREADEAGLE 'EM

- Episode's Brilliancy and Speed A Big Factor .

George Ourrie supplied the winner of the Wanganui Chxineai last . year with pamaris, and he should be the successful owner this season. .

THE Koatanui owner will have as representative the brilliant and v. speedy Episode, ..which played great havoo with the two-year-olds towards the close of last season^ The filly has wintered really well, and, m her work, she has been showing all her old pace. - Last year she 'was always running on strongly at the finish, and the only fault that could ever be found with her ( was that at times she gave the im-. pression of loafing. . ... :-.■■'■ ■ ■ " Once she got to the front she seemed to be content to bowl^albhg.iri' a leisurely'manner. ■ ■'.■■'..-■.'.'■ A big strider, getting over the ground with one to the others' two, may have possibly' brought about this idea. .;■.;■ ■:/ •• '.' _■-.-. ", /. . '■' Anyhow, to-day there will "be no worrying m finding out a fayorite for. the Wanganui classic. ' ' ' The crowd will want to be !on - Episode and nothing else. > They are not a particularly good lot that will meet the filly, and perhaps

•the best of the bunch .may be FuH Feather and Moutoa Treasury. / Full; Feather gave some promise on occasions last year, but just when! ha was looked to, he failed. v ,„! A repetition of his best would: pee him make matters Interestlng-rr-for- a while at least. " . '.■•"'■- ' Moutoa Treasury won a, hack race at Marton last week. It, was not the winning of the race but the way she accomplished her task that impressed.. . Not too well served early, she stuck on m great fashion— she succeeded where most thought she would fail. 4 Lucky Light can hardly be up to the class, while the maidens, Cyrille and The Warden, also come under "that classification.High Falutin' and Consent are two 1 from Fred. 'Tllley'a stable. Baskler completes the field. . . Round Wanganui traok, brlllianoy is everything, and Episode ; is the one with an over-plus -of * that commodity. She should show it to-day and tha rest may get tired trying to get up to her. . ■. . . ..... ... -..•. •■'•■..,