NOTHING OUTSTANDING

NZ Truth, Issue 1190, 20 September 1928, Page 11

NOTHING OUTSTANDING

There Are Few Stars> but Many Are Good

(From "N.Z. Truth's* Special Dunedin Representative.) Tne Dunedin Jockey Club has the prospect* of staging an 'interesting contest m this year's Guineas.

SILVER PAPER, Starshooter and Noteworthy already have form to recommend them, while Goblin Market, Childsplay, Prickles and Chide ere all working well In view of the first three-year-old classic m the south. ■ The high-priced Nightmarch has not filled out as might have been expected, but he has been put into fast work after a fairly easy time. It is doubtful, however, if he will be forward enough to run out a "fast mile m good company. The brilliant manner m which Silver Paper performed at the Otago Hunt meeting confirms the good things said about him. His ancestry does not impress anyone looking for stayers, but his brilliance up to six furlongs will help him a long? way m the mile classic. Noteworthy's form m the Cashmere Plate at the National meeting must be taken Into account. In that he seemed hopelessly out Qt it, but oame on with an undeniable burst to head off Starshooter. The latter wai then a trifle raw, but his work with Footfall on the ■MiHtimiiniiiiiniiiiiiittiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii

traoks makes Noteworthy's performance a good one. Another candidate on whose form a line may be got at Ashburton is Chide. Last season Chide ran second to Goblin Market m the Middle Park Plate, and since being put into commission this year he has done everything asked of him. What beats him at Ashburton m the Trial will be good, and he has finished lip his tasks so convincingly at Riccarton that he is a distinct possibility m the Dunedin classic. Starshooter is another candidate which is improving, and as his tasks have mostly been over seven furlongs and a mile the distance will not be strange to him. Then there Is (the Chokebore pair, Prickles and Chlldsplay. If either is started — or both— lt can be guaranteed that the paoe for the first half-mile will be a crnoker. While there may be nothing outstanding, the race should be full of interest, with the issue, for the present at least, well concealed. iiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiimiiiiHiiiiimniiiimiinimmiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiin