DESERVES IT

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

DESERVES IT

Kalos Now In The Right Mood If ever there was a horse that deserved to be well fed it is Kalos. W/HEN the chestnut first made hi; " appearance he made a deep im pression m the minds of those wh< follow racing closely. " ' He raced like a good one and th< brand was on him to make him a good one. But for a time he failed to live vi to what Avas expected. This was hardly through any faul of his . own. Bad luck dogged tin chestnut from the time of his firs appearance on the track. It is on very rare occasions indeec that he has failed to run an hones:

iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiuiiiiniiiiiiii race and m quite a number of hi essays he has not been served with th< best of horsemanship. Lately Allan McDonald has been riding him and it has to be admitted that many thought the rider and the horse did not co-ordinate. However, the proof of the pudding ii m the eating and McDonald gets Kalo; home m the right position now am then. The latest occasion was at Martoi on New Year's Day and the last bit o the race was painful to look at — that ii for the backers of other horses. ■ There is quite a lot of money Ii Kalos yet and he should make a won> derul hurdler, when his days on th< flat have ended.