JUST WAITING

NZ Truth, Issue 1204, 27 December 1928, Page 9

JUST WAITING

Set Sail Holding Back (From "N.Z. 'Truth's" Punodin Rep.) A significant feature of the holiday racing down south is the absence of Set Sail from the handi- .' caps. " * : TT is unlikely that she will be a run- ■*■ ncr until the Invercargill Cup is contested, and while she is biding her time the hardest of her opponents m the £1000 race are- getting up m the weights. In previous years she has. failed at Riccarton and then gone, south and made her opponents look . cheap. . ■■ •■ -'■ , ! . Many southerners are looking for a repetition of her 1927 and 1928 successes. ' . • It is a big thing to. win a cup three years m succession, and as w.eights are not declared at the time of writing her prospects cannot be reliably discussed. She is expected, however, to make a bold showing- % ■