JOY BIRD’S POSITION
4 KEEN follower of the lightharness, sport forwards a protest against the handicapping of Joy Bird for Whangarei, pointing out that after going 3.29 15- for third place at Claude* lands in 12 furlongs, she is on a 3.38 peg on Saturday, which he considers is not fair to those whose horses have no performances or have never yet been in the money. Although it certainly looks as •f Joy Bird should be hard to best under these circumstances, thsre is no certainty about it, and it would indeed be hard on the owner of Joy Bird to be penalised to the extent of the t«ms the mare put up for the ejnallest end of the purse. Jean McElwyn after running second •t Wellington improved her time 13 seconds and was looked upon "•xt time out as a moral off the ‘ront. Yet another maiden in Lady Matchlight beat the filly, who has not yet broken her maiden status. •he point raised opens up the Question again, should a maiden parforr -- be handicapped as a maiden till it wins? But this W'H form the subject of a later article.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 221, 7 December 1927, Page 11
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192JOY BIRD’S POSITION Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 221, 7 December 1927, Page 11
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