QUICK GET-AWAY WILL TELL

NZ Truth, Issue 1240, 5 September 1929, Page 15

QUICK GET-AWAY WILL TELL

Big Field In the Mile and Half ."■,■. a Will Fight It Out . , ' (By "The Toff") There Js a big field; m the mile and a-half event at New Brighton on Saturday, and' a lot will depend on a good beginning.

ARQHANUI, after 'a, lengthy spell, ' is • back A again iri A work and doing capitally m training, A.A „A • She is a quick beginner,-' 1 which, will be a, decided advantage off. the limit. ; : Bonne Fille, when last raced, showed plenty of speed,' but she did not go ■steadily.'' 'AA :-":-•■' A-y A•'' A - -■ If she keeps to her gait she': yrill keep ,an::busy;, v -A-'''y, r y .■>•.-■'' ;A: "AA . /A.: I . y Esbine is a useful sort Awhioh : • may also go well ,off the end' of the - yhandjcapiA :-y ;, '.. ■<: .:';■ .' .. - Ay-.' ' . Great Glee: and Nancy McKiimey.' have only 'to- go right to be very troublesome and, unless the front, division go all to pieces the back -markers can have little chance. y A >■ Great Way, on .72 yards, may prove the bdst of the rearguard division, i A

Bonne Fille, Arohanui and Great Way look like getting the money. l Although the class.for the, two-mile event is a 4riiin. - 50sec one, very few trotters are , on or near' the limit of the handicap.; y . ■/.-■ y The> distance seems to trouble many trotters . nowadays and: fields are always larger for mile and- a-half events than two-mile one's, y New Metford has. been working' very well, but. Avalanche, on the same mark;. is. much too unreliable to be supported, / Mount' Royal showed a return to form last month and if the big trotter goes right he may race' promiriently. Repute, New, Metford and Dipnoi should finish m that, order/ '.. * I: