OVER ON EAST COAST

NZ Truth, Issue 1210, 7 February 1929, Page 11

OVER ON EAST COAST

Meeting Is Mainly of Interest To The Locals ,

Meetings held at Gisborne do not attract a great deal of outside interest. The class of horse is the main reason for this.

■THE town,. in its isolation, fails to 1 attract a very high standard of animal, and as each meeting comes the same old list of names crop up. It is the same for the meeting which opens the Park to-day. Just ordinary fields are on offer and m some races there will be only one dividend. Form shown at ■ Wairoa last month will .have an all-important "bearing, and it may be wise to remember this. In the Te Hapara Handicap, Plimmerton and'Patutahi are a pair that can be' recommended. They were dual winners at Wairoa. It may be necessary to pick the Flying m one, and Jeanette is ; a consistent performer on tracks up that way. , The Maiden ' Scurry is rightly named and they are a mixed and varied assortment. Rich Harvest, one- of the Barry breeding, has been prominent before

to-day, and King Manu is another of that type. J The big race is the Carroll Memorial, placed on the programme to perpetuate the memory of Timi , Kara. King Willonyx, consequent on" his two successes at Wairoa, is at the top of the handicap, and he should carry the bulk of the money. At Christmas good money was won when Mangaheri scored m the maiden at Awapuni, and that was not a bad field. ". ■ Weight does not trouble Pale Star a great deal, and m certain company he gallops like a champion. Given time to find his feet he will be m at the finish of the High Weight. The black fellow, Cool Card, though possessing not the best of breathing apparatus, can get to the end of a good seven, and he should be able to hold his own with the moderate bunch m the Park Handicap.