LET THEM COME

NZ Truth, Issue 1208, 24 January 1929, Page 13

LET THEM COME

Honour Will Be There To Try Them Out IMPROVES ALL THE TIME

. Northerners maintain that Si the. season; but m the south this is QUPREMACT beat Honour m 'the O Foal Stakes .on a ground that would not ' suit the big striding chestnut, and then, m the Royal Stakes, Honour won when Supremacy , got badly. bungled up at the start. . So things can be called .even between the pair — -it- has not been a fair test df ability to date. Last week "N.Z. Truth" made mention of the desirability of a match between Supremacy, Honour and Ceremony, to be run m the autumn, with each owner putting m > £ 500 and the club another £500. • -. Well, after the' Wellington Stakes at Treritham on Tuesday, , most everybody present would want to be on Honour if the r.ace .could be brought about. j He shouldered a ten-pound penalty and over tfte- vlast >'• furlong it was Honour .first, and 'the rest anywhere. At the barrier he was riot too ' well served as the tapes, lifted. - He seemed ,to sidle at the crucial moment and the flighty, ones m front set'apace that. took some following. First Money, Speed-Light and Francolin must [have had all of , a three-; length break ;as;, the ■ ccturse proper was

ipremacy is the best youngster of } disputed. reached, but getting down to his work Honour set to bridge the gap. That tremendous stride of his was worth two' of the others and he had the event at his mercy a furlong from home. Honour is improving with every race and those who had not seen him since the day he won the Welcome at Riccarton hardly knew him as the same horse. He has fined down, and the top hamper he carried last November is absent. Back to the proposal for the match. Honour this week did his part, but after Ceremony's failure many would want to count. him out. . , That would be a grave error. He was ridden by a light lad on Tuesday and this, . coupled with his greenness, found the Absurd youngster running all over the place. He hit the course so wide out that it was possible to drive a squadron ol" ton' 'trucks up between him and the rails. He may not be m the same class as Honour, but m one direction he is like the Greenwood colt — he is on the improve all the time.