FROM THE OUTSIDERS

NZ Truth, Issue 1203, 20 December 1928, Page 14

FROM THE OUTSIDERS

Visitors Will Keep Them Stepping In Sprint (From "N.Z. Truth's" Special Christchurch Representative)-. There are two invaders from the northern end of the island that will keep the sprinters busy m the Federal Handicap at Wineratui. v

BLACK DUKE and Booster are entitled to even top -weight, and of these two Booster should be the ,mdre dangerous, but it is very doubtful if either of them can give anything to Gay Sonnet m her present form. They have been asked to give her only a pound. Fred Buchanan's mare will have the services of Charlie Emerson, , and that is as good as half a stone to her. . She has proved this to he a fact since the present season opened, and she is capable of even better performances than she gave at Oamaru. A southern trio m King Balboa, Circulation and Rin Tin Tin are next on the list, and Rin Tin Tin should be the best of the trio.

If, however, the connections of . First Raid pay up m the sprint, he is entitled to every respect. He proved himself a high-class hack, capable of carrying weight, and m his initial effort m open company at Oamaru, he won very stylishly after his chance looked hopeless. If Father' O'F.ynii were to touch his former brilliance he would be a . good thing at the weights, but he has never lived tip to-his early form. Of the half dozen near the bottom Coomassie and Meadow Lark are. the best, with preference for the latter. It looks as though the top half of the handicap will provide the placegetters, and of that lot nothing has better form than FIRST RAID, GAY SONNET.