DESERT GOLD AND BIPLANE.

Taihape Daily Times, 7 May 1918, Page 3

DESERT GOLD AND BIPLANE.

The people who voiced the suggestion for a match over a mile at Wanganui this month between Desert Gold and Biplane must surely have been imbued with optimism of a very pronounced order if they entertained the thought of such bearing any fruit. Mr, T. H. Lowry made it quite clear that Desert Gold's five-year-old career came to a close with her engagements in the Awapuni Gold Cup; and with that fact clearly estatblishi ed, and. that it is a good shade of odds I that the state of the going in May would be dead against a true~test, the Hawke's Bay sportsman was qri on likely to give a hearing to the projected match. We are told that Mr. G. D. Greenwood and Trainer R. J. Mason were prepared to entertain the j matter. Perhaps so. The Southerners, j however, undoubtedly leave them-! selves OT-en to, a severe thrust by reason of their declining the opportunity which was presented them at Awapuni last month, when rather than seek a meeting with Desert Gold the scratching pen was requisitioned. Let us just hope that when next season rolls round Mr. G. D. Greenwood and Richard Mason may have gathered sufficient courage to avoid a side-step when Desert Gold is in the way.