THE CHINA MAIL RACING SUPPLEMENT, FEBRUARY 23, 1938
Liberty Bay
FIRST May Not Start AMAZING
AT THE
In
Champions RECORD
POST BEAR CLAW AND KING'S WARDEN
IN
1820
JOHNNIE
WALKER
WHISKY
HAS BEEN
THE
WINNER
EVER
SINCE!
SOLE AGENTS:
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The Champion Stakes, worth approximately $3,300 to the winning owner, is the eighth race on to-day's programme, and it is open to all the best contenders among the griffins, China ponies of any season, but I doubt whether more than five ponies will go out to face the starter over 114 miles.
If sent out, Mr. L. Dunbar's Liberty Bay is naturally the one to annex the main prize, but after its gallop last Saturday in the last race, there is some doubt whether it is really fit to run again as there is a possibility of a recurrence of its previous trouble. However, in view of the fact that Liberty Bay has not been sent out in any race over the past two days, I the Dunbar Stable has merely kept it back for the Champions. The following are the probable starters:—
think
Liberty Bay (Mr. Maitland)
will be many who will be prepared to Bear Claw (Mr. Black)
lay a bet on its chances against either King's Warden (Mr. Needa)
King's Warden or Bear Claw. Silky- Silkylight (Mr. Moller)
light has done remarkably well, and as Desert Chief (Mr. Encarnacao). the race for the Derby was run at a We need not look further than very fast pace, the slightly shorter Liberty Bay as the Champion, but be- distance will probably prove more suit- yond watching its progress in the race able for this powerful pony. punters have no further interest as this undefeated pony is debarred from betting. To pick the winner from the other four, as far as the betting is con- cerned, is no easy task. It will be a clash between two old ponies and two
new ones.
To keen observers of training, and people who really understood the merits of China ponies, the defeat of Desert Chief in the Derby was not altogether unexpected. There had, in fact, been some fear entertained by its stable connections that Desert Chief had not the requisite stamina to last out the Derby distance, and this was borne out when it failed badly over the last two hundred yards, when a last desperate effort was most im- portant. However, bearing în mind the fact that the Champions to-day will be contested over a shorter course, and as it won the Racing Stakes In all its outings, King's Warden has been most impressive, and I shall not time without being extended, I con- over one mile yesterday in really fast be far wrong in stating that, apart sider that Desert Chief has more than from Liberty Bay, it will require really brilliant pony to lower its co-defeat at the hands of Silkylight
an outside chance of reversing its lours.
King's Warden won the Foochow Cap over 11⁄2 miles, the Challenge Cup over 1% miles and the Peking Plate over 1 miles. In the first two events it had only Wild Life as opposition, and it won without any great difficulty, !but it had to do a bit of running in the other race, when, carrying 163 lbs., it again defeated Wild Life, with Soldier of Honour third.
bear
King's Warden will, I expect,
If started, Liberty Bay will win, the brunt of the betting. with Bear otherwise I nominate King's Warden. Claw close on its heels,
with Bear Claw second and Silkylight third.
Bear Claw has not done any really hard work. It won the China Stakes on Saturday over five furlongs, and on Monday it carried off the Victoria Stakes over one mile. It was not seen in action yesterday, thus lending co- lour to the belief that it will represent the Dunbar Stable, with Liberty Bay as a likely non-starter.
After Silkylight's most convincing win in the Hong Kong Derby, there
Whoever wins, I have no doubt that the race will be worth going a long way to see, as the return encounter between King's Warden and Bear Claw is keenly awaited. Under Mr. Needa, King's Warden goes through its paces with a nice easy movement, and Bear Claw will have to be at its best in order to beat this great-hearted `pony from the Dynasty stable.
RAPIER'S SELECTIONS FOR TO-DAY
RACE NO. 1:
GOLDEN COW
BORRACHITO
RACE NO. 7:
CONFUSION BAY
MOONLIGHT VIEW CAMERONIAN
OUTSIDER: Expression Time.
LIBERTY-BAY-
KING'S WARDEN BEAR--CLAW.
OUTSIDER: Silkylight.
PLANCHET
OUTSIDER: Cuban Love.
RACE NO. 8:.
RACE NO:27
HUMDRUM EVE
JOBER...
JUST IN TIME:
RACE NO, 3:
HAVOC EVE
POTENTATE.
EXPANSION TIME.
OUTSIDER: Boolat Bay.
OUTSIDER: Lancashire Lass, RACE NO. 9:
RACE NO. 4;
STRATHROY GYPSY LOVE BLANDFORD
OUTSIDER: Able Amazon.
RACE NO.: 5:
ROB · ROY.
SOLDIER OF HONOUR AMBERLEY
OUTSIDER: Firefly.
RACE NO. 6:
KING'S PRIVILEGE
MURRAY RIVER CAPE YORK
OUTSIDER: Arina,
LOUIS XIV
SMILING THRU GOLDEN COW
OUTSIDER: Desert Star.
RACE NO. 10:
NATIONAL PRIDE HALF MOON EVE ADVANCING TIME
OUTSIDER: FOWEY
CORONATION DAY GOLD. SOVEREIGN RACING BOY
OUTSIDER: Whalsey.
RACE NO. 11:
RACEĽNO. 12:
WILD LIFE
TRENTBRIDGE.
GLADIATOR
WOUTSIDER: OAK B
DAILY DOUBLE?
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