ONLY SEVEN

NZ Truth, Issue 1196, 1 November 1928, Page 13

ONLY SEVEN

Few Hurdlers To Start Day

There will be no real excitement evinced over the opening event at Riccarton on Saturday.

WITH a total stake money of £400 only seven acceptors can be found. At Trentham, with less money offered, far bigger fields were attracted..

What just is wrong with Riccarton is hard to say.

It is offered year m and year but, but never with anything like a decent response. Perhaps owners think the ground is getting too hard.'

Nukumai is there, and he had to get a parcel of weight — and .he did. His portion is 12.9.

Seeing he won a National with something like a stone less he should be able to look after this burden. And he is well and truly seasoned.

Nucleus fell at her last start, and she may not go so well as she did on the same course last August. She likes the sting out of the ground and the distance is also a bit /too far.

Beaumont won his first race at Trentham after falling the first day — or rather losing his rider.

A win at Dunedin brings Diana's lad into the business and he seems to stay on fairly well. Carinthia, which bled at Trentham, w"as not able to give of- his best, but then he is not' liked over Saturday's distance. ■■'■.' Betting. will not cover a wide, range when, among those engaged, are Nukumai, I Diana's Lad.