RACING

Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 168, 6 October 1927, Page 7

RACING

(CONTINED.) LIMERICK’S GIFTS WEIGHT-FOR-AGE CONTESTS FEEBLE OPPOSITION The Australian Jockey Club can consider itself unlucky in the matter of weight-for-age events, wrote a Sydney scribe on the eve of the meeting now In pregress. Generally among the main attractions of a big meeting, they have, in the last year, deteriorated to ordinary races from a spectacular point of view, through circumstances over which the A.J.C. had no control. The present spring has provided a further example in which much interest has been detracted from them. Last spring meeting set the ball rolling in the matter of the deterioration of weight-for-age fields, for the inability of Windbag to stand his preparat.on meant the end of the interest in the meeting for many once or twice•’year racegoers. TRICKS OF FATE Th» autumn meeting gave great promise of clashes between Windbag, Heroic and Manfred. Windbag broke down irrevocably and did not start a t the meeting. Manfred refused to leave the barrier in his Melbourne races, and the trip to Sydney was consequently cancelled. Heroic raced, but that was all. He not within stones of himself, and so the weight-for-age races were left at the mercy of the three-year-old Limerick. This spring has been a repetition of the autumn, for once again Limerick appears certain to clean up all the weight-for-age events during the next weelc. Tiro months ago the possibility the public witnessing races such ** those of Gloaming and Beauford, though on an even greater scale, ,-TOigb the addition of an extra com* attnt, was particularly bright, Mew ••Minders were divided as to which or -Limerick and Commendation would prove the better. Limerick had made tran l ? me as a three-year-old in Ausiml*’ Commendation had done, everyn 5 asked him in Mew Zealand. SOON DASHED addition of Amounis added * i *° *he prospects of wonderful but that possibility has slipped Lt a y lnto obscurity, until it is now not ©ven considered. whi'k drst weight-for-age event in Jr -A “'ey met, the Warwick Stakes. tlu* a N. that was expected. That miT! 9 J nishe<l within heads augured at thl 0 ;* between them when mar.v •’° I> of their condition. But, like y another hope, it was soon dashed. forr« >i me 4 ndatlon suddenly lost all the our t made him a champion in his ChelTKo? nt r y * fai l e <l utterly in the and a & ai n in the Hill full hi. cou^d n °t reproduce to the inuna! Undou hted pace, and present asa n \ ns are that he will not race 3uo»d hi ustr alia. Amounis reproennf p °wers of running a mile, and Spr n** xr * *he Epsom instead of the l>*c m Han< Hcap, in which he was exAn? . exte nd Limerick, row s P r *ng Stakes to-mor-Wej*ht_# . r w 'th the rest of the f or rim races, appear gifts f'nt.'i wjt r, lck - To-morrow his oppon*wo exceptions, are only We ? hr and of the true sot l opers » Pilllewinkie is aph not yet at his top. Rising Thres- Year-Old the tHree-year-old who folHaww- e and Paleta home in the f »l ? uineas - is a very useDei'iv n « ei l who should do well proP . a '" e<l ‘his season, writes “Vedluclcy nt xi Was P°ssibly rather unuStirigs ’ for a do & ran out homJ 1 -JrJ h °rsos about a furlong from Up With ef ppearcd to become mixed Mho it s * n &leton’s legs, fortunately •W:on,i \ *® ri °us mishap. This is the <Jo ; j lrne within a fortnight a loose irti’iib'p % racecourse has threatened *" e animal at Hastings was ard confined.