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NZ Truth, Issue 1214, 7 March 1929, Page 11

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Pride Improves With Her Racing - (From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch Rep.) The finish of the Peninsula Cup at Motukarara, % while a thrijler from the public point of view, was a bit distasteful to the connections of Red, Heckle. •THEY were not altogether hopeful of •*• success, as the gelding had not had a run since he won the Greaty Northern Derby, but he was never gping easily at any stage of the race, and he would not respond to Charlie Emerson's call when a run -was needed. •He did not look too bright, and he will need to make rapid improvement to win "the St. Leger at Trentham. , | He was the victim of interference when Thorndale sent Rapier back on him at the head of the straight, but he was then a beaten runner. ... Beau Geste repeated his bulldog finish in -the Midsummer Handicap, but he was favored m the running m comparison Avith Rapier- and Pride. Rapier was interfered with by Thorndale, just as the pace was going on, while Pride was the victim of a poor start and was flying over everything at the finish. With anything like the run Beau Geste got, these two .would have fought it out for first money. Pride Avon the Oaks from a poor field, but her late form makes her look a possibility : for the N.Z. St. Leger, as she looks like staying on,-