IS NO LADY

NZ Truth, Issue 1201, 6 December 1928, Page 11

IS NO LADY

Let Her Alone and She's Home COSTLY MISS (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Auckland Rep.) Royal Doulton is no lady — she has been playing nasty tricks on the punters. SHE gets them m heavy on her and then lets them down badly. Next she bolts home m front when she has only been half-heartedly supported. She was m the boom for a mile and a-quarter at Ellersll© after finishing on In a seven the previous day. However, she arrived home a bit late to return the chips. Then she was dropped for a mile and a- quarter at the Dargaville fixture held at Avondale, and bolted away ■with the cash. On that showing 1 she looked an abBolute certainty over a mile m her next up at the same gathering. But Royal Doulton left the punters shedding tears. That failure caused her to get In the Alison Cup light, and Pukekohe potato© and onion money went on her m piles. And once again Royal Doulton suffered defeat. It was thought she was too lean a customer to stand two hard races m , as many days, and when she went out : to contest the big event on the second day, she lost a host of her first-day admirers. But she did the job handsomely. In fact, it was really a. shame to take the money. That she Is brilliant at her best there is no doubt, but she is evidently no every-day sort, and does not look like one. She is too leanly framed to strike critics as solid, but put her m light and give her a clear passage and she may even oatpa.ce & tip-top handicap field up to a mile and a-quarter.