JUST A SHOW EXHIBIT

NZ Truth, Issue 1197, 8 November 1928, Page 13

JUST A SHOW EXHIBIT

Honour Made Them Look So Many Goats

Little can be said of the two-year-olds which- we're opposed to Honour m the Welcome Stakes on Saturday last.

HOG fait, Honour would have looked more at home at the showgrounds at Addington, and each and every person that looked him over wrote his chances down jas nil. . He was hundredweights too , heavy. and he appeared to be m need of much work even' to ■ get him ready for Christmas. On the machine .it was a case of write jour own ticket, Aspiring, Speed Light and Gold Tinge monopolising che 'betting. But what a smack m the eye was m. store. ; Aspiring, and her co speed merchants, were out m the .first three furlongs, going for the lick of their lives, and Honour was still . unthought of. Then came the false rail and . Bert Ellis drove the big chestnut through. He had to use '.the- stick on him to remind him that it was m dead earnests ' . ■■ ■ _ ->\ ■■ ••..-■ For Honour, m addition to being fat, /was as green as the grass that grows m Ireland. He reached but this way. and then

that way, but his stride was. equal to . two of the others. 'i ' The last bit was not a race as. far as the big end was concerned, i - Honour is the gentleman that' GL p. Greenwood paid the record 'price -. of 2500 * gns. for. at the last Trenthain. sale. .. '■,'. . ! ■ ■ • ' ':-■'■■. ; : ' .- He is a full, ibrother to Episode, is very much like her m his coloring, but is nearly twice as big. „- . Little has been jdone with him prior to the meeting and thffre ia V a suggestion that he is troubled with feet trouble. '; It is strange how the complaint ;is inherited by a number of the Limond Stock.' ." ' ; ;. :-.:.'<^jy.- ". Limerickj Commendation 'and /Usriori all hkve had their trouble i^ the* foot. .■'■' '. ■ ' ;■■■ ... ■ :■ '"". .-.- ■' -''■■ : -. :: \-' ■ Aucklanders can be preparecl for something of a shock on Bpxing^l)ay if everything goes along well with Honour. ;; - . Up north they swear by Supremacy, I but after having seen the two going, I "N.Z. Truth" wants to go. pn. Honour's ' side. ' •■'■.'■ '-■■/■ .'' : : -'■''■.' '■:}':■ yyt .;■■•_