ALL THE REST AT EPSOM

NZ Truth, Issue 1193, 11 October 1928, Page 15

ALL THE REST AT EPSOM

Minor Events Will Have Punters Thinking Hard

(From "N.iJ. Truth's" Special Auckland Representative.)

The minor events at Auckland are open and as several candidates claim dual engagements, punters who try to pick the card at this stage will have a hard proposition.

THEY are much of a muchness m the Waitemata Trot, fourteen m number, and Lonesome off the front must be entitled to respect. There is another on the limit m the shape of Etta Cole and on appearance and fast trials on the dirt track she looks about due to catch the judge sometime m the spring. Billy Carbine and Gold Star will be handy as they hit the last half-mile disc and if Bright Light could be persuaded to do his best he would be m the hunt, too. On winter meeting form Kolmar should give it a shake and Marble Star with a record of .8.29 2/5 for a mile and a-half appears well treated placed on 3.35. Horses likely to be close to the front nearing the judge will be Lonesome, Kolmar and Etta Cole. Eighteen paid up for the Improvers' Handicap and the southerners, Lap- ! lander and Sunfish, will be there to tackle this 3.28 % pace. Anything from down south that steps out at Auckland generally manages to get the cash m this class, for they don't travel them for nothing these days, and Laplander and SUnfish have been previous winners. Cornelian, that classy Te Awamutu mare, with a winning performance of 3.26 2/5, is advantageously placed on 3.28 % and Author Dillon's daughter should be a bundle of trouble. Nelson Dillon and Abrudbanya are about the best of the remainder of the limit lot. ' Daytime and Free Advice can be ticked off to play a prominent part. .

Sorting them down to three, it looks like Sunflsh, Cornelian and Laplander being the best. Only seven are due to tackle the Stewards' Handicap and not one from Epsom or Mangere is included. There will bey a rush to be on King Pointer, for the son of Young Star Pointer is everything that is "It." Nothing is outstanding m the twomile Mountain Trot, but Tiger Salve repeating his previous 4.38 .2/5 from a 4.40 mark would keep the others moving fast. There seems no reason why he ■> shouldn't do it, 'for the ex-Austra-lian has been bowling along as a good one should. Great Change would go close with a good getaway, but of late he has been "iffy" at the peg. . •Old Tradesman 'is a puller and that beats him frequently, while The Tartar is one which seems to have his brains m his feet. Rose Bingen and Young Blake appear to have chances also. Three possibilities are Tiger Salve, Maxegin and Young Blake. The concluding event will see a scramble to be on Free Advice if she is reserved, and should Native Prince. fail to gain a penalty for his previous effort they will want him as well. The same may be said about Taipare, Pageant and William the Great and their previous running should act as a guide. ■ ; It may develop into a finish between Free Advioe, Native Prince and Tal-