TWO LEGERS

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

TWO LEGERS

Red Heckle's Plan Of Campaign

(From "N.Z. Truth's" Christchurch Rep.) Red Heckle's programme for the season is being restricted to the New Zealand and Great .Northern St. Legers. LIE will not start on the second day *■* at Trentham, and as he is to contest the Great Northern St. Leger, he will not be able to run m the Great Easter and Great Autumn Handicaps at Riccartonr This removes the much-desired I meeting with Nightmarch to decide the actual three-year-old supremacy of the season. An . internal disorder kept Red Heckle back early this season, and he had only a month's work before his successful assault on Riccarton at New Zealand Cup time. , His owner told "N.Z. Truth" that he had no intention of knocking his horse about by carrying big weights m handicap events this year. The only reason for starting him at Banks Peninsula on Saturday under 9.0 was that he needed the race" to sharpen him up for his St. Leger engagement. . Red Heckle has shown sufficient for his party to be patient with him, and the wisdom of their policy will probably be proved when he is : ,a four-year-old.