LOOKS A LIKELY STAYER

NZ Truth, Issue 1206, 10 January 1929, Page 11

LOOKS A LIKELY STAYER

Great Northern Derby Improves Concentrate's Form (From "N. 2. Truth's" Special Auckland Representative.) It would seem that ai, different result would have been recorded, m connection with the Great Northern Derby had Concentrate been favored with another run prior to the blue-ribbon classic. TJB was up fifth at the close of the ,R. J. Murphy's colt may rank m lin«

' ** Derby, and with that race into him • Concentrate stripped a much better horse when he Went put to contest the Grandstand Handicap on the final day. ■' y - - '. ,■■■'- . . - .. ■. ■'. ' ..-' That he ran up to • jhis looks he proved by finishing m line with Ver-; tigern for the main hojiors, those behind him including all the. best handicap winners of the fixture. ' On that form it seems that the Concentrate party were a shade/ unlucky to miss the classic honors. It is .possible^ that ' the full-brother to Oratrix eventually AviU' prove to, be the real stayer of the Great Northern Derby field of 1929, m spite "of the fact that he failed to get into the money.

with wightmarch as the most likely of this year's three-year-olds to develop into stayers of note. ; . He is engaged m the Wellington ciip. :'■■-■■■[ • • ".■•;■■■'■ ;p .^'~ ' If; there is one among the medium -weighted section which should cause consideration it is likely to be the -full-brother to Oratrix. -^ ,-;•••; *• So far Concentrate has not won more than his share on the turf.":, ; v - His determined finish on the final day of the big northern carnival certainly gave out hopes that he will prove one of the few stayers m training at the present time.