Where There Are No Phar Laps

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 803, 25 October 1929, Page 16

Where There Are No Phar Laps

COMANCHE FOR BRISBANE TO OPPOSE GUINEAS WINNER Comanche is not going to Melbourne for the V.R.C. Spring Meeting. D. Lewis stated so recently to a Sydney writer. Crucis and Sir Kibble will go south, but Comanche will be sent to Brisbane. On A.J.C. Derby form, Comanche would have little chance of beating Phar Lap or Carradale at Flemington, and Pentlieus must also enter into calculations. Mr. “R. L. De Percy” evidently took this view and decided that it would bo wiser to send his colt after the Q-T.C. Derby, with its .£2,000 added money, than tackle the Victoria Derby. As a rule, horses from Sydney lind it difficult to win important handicaps in Brisbane, and there is little likelihood of Comanche having matters all his own way in the Q.T.C. Derby. At Rand wick lie did not finish as if he liked a mile and a half. A little over a furlong from home he seemed sure to beat Honour for third but over the last bit he did not do as well as the latter. Queensland's Best BcrnfltW, Amble Boy and Great iou«n,Sf;? ettcrs in the recenl Queensland Guineas, are in the Derbv I and Bernneld and Great Idea are in the i Cup, 2 miles, with 7.U each". The three-year-olds have over weight-for-age m that race, but the i Cup held cannot be considered high j class seeing that Moorelin heads the • eights with 9st, and Boulton has only a pound less. J th-ft h r-,S; T ,' < ?i handiCa , PPCr must believe U lat £, , ™ ea Is a better stayer than Bern field, otherwise he would not have placed him on the same mark as the ! atter ’ beat him a couplo of lenstlis in the Guineas. Bernfield, who was bred'by Mr J H ! I s by Bernard from Breccia ; try Bernard from Bridesmaid (imp)uhile Great Idea, who was bred and i ls raced by Mrs. Barnes, is bv Rjvoli irom High Ideas, and on his dam s side i i uns back to Carbine, i Comanche may lin'd the northern j three-year-olds hard to beat, but he ha" Der Kin E e h r tbance of winning a u --° > m Brisbane than m Melbourne.