KAHIKATOA IS GOOD

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 14, 16 July 1931, Page 10

KAHIKATOA IS GOOD

..EASY WIN IN MEMBERS'

• The substitution oE'H. Gray for an apprentice en Kahikatoa _made all the difference ml' his running in the Members' Handicap. .In , the Whyte Handicap on' Saturday- he was not prominent at any part, and finished .eleventh, but yesterday he was always going easily behind the tearaway Coon Song, and he was never in danger of,,defeat once he hit the front a short distance beyond the false rail.

: A 'three-year-old: gelding by Arausio from the General Latour mare Carlatour,1 Kjihikatoa/.is ;very' powerfully built,' and he' is probably among the best of the short to middle distance horses of his ; age. .He, should carry,big weights with success'next season,: and he is likely■'; to be a power to reckon with in important event's.— He is such a horse as may win a race like the Winter Cup. Full of strength, he takes a lot of riding, and even'his yesterday's pilot, H. Gray, vouchsafed - the admission after! working him on Tuesday that, there ■are vnot.many- -who; can: pull (as, hard as. he dbes.y #>i ■;'.'■'■.;'•■.;'V'-V-. /•■■ ■ ; .'„■'- ■ ..•'■ >.-. C.pon' Song, '.with' his customary brilliance away- from .the barrier,' saw that, the-.pace was-applied,in the ra_c.e." Kahikatoa, Royal '-.Saxon'; Fitzquex/ and Red Boa followed- him out, and Royal Finance, who.jmissedjtbe jump-away,, was : soon up with'them,; and-;so. was Prince Val; " Red Boa drifted, a little pn .the tuijii, and Coon; Song..vi-as':s6ill 'jyrell.-clear,, swinging for home,. with: Kahilcatqa, Prince !Val; Fitzquex,l Royal: Saxon, .and. 'Royal Finance ■hard "in piifsuit, and Red Boa coming again. oil the rail; Kabikatoa.raced-past .the', pacemaker just - beyond the false rail, and, -his. supremacy not afterwards being seriously.'! questioned/ he continued ■ on" smoothly';' to; -beat. Prince Val ;by. nearly two-lengths,': Red Boa, with a fast-finish-ing" uih dpw;n 'the- rjiil, ' just failing ;by 'a neck' to1 oust. the tiring, Prince Val ; from second, place, and actually heading him, off .'a stride the wrong; side ..of, the, post. Coon ,Song;. was a fair fourth, and there was.then.a ga.p,pf,some-lengths to Fiter' qtiei, Royal Finance,I'Head Serang,'Royal Saxon,.and' Moa.;Birq% Tpbaccolancl was last away;and. last.,;to :finish. ''-,': \ ; ;', . ~' Thei^e , was not niuch -difference in^ tiro betting iis .between-^Prince Val and Kahikatba? ■ and >F ; itzq'uex.' also had a big-fol-lowing,' but the others were .poorly supported.'' Prince Val ■ did:, not get the best ofrthe.startj'and-the.ejGEort-.he made'iracin^ dpwri ,th'e:.outside .f or-, position probably resulteclyin his tiring; near: the post. : Howeyet'f':. he '^Ta^yer'-ihdd^a.) chance with , the wijirier '■'. "; *Eed :.'Boa finished: with ': a great rattle,.; and'was decidedly unlucky not to be. secoiid....Tpbaccpland, Assemble,', "and Royal; 'Finance., did ,'not get awayv'wpll. 'J:h<j.,Vfirst named .was- more , digiipp.ointing thani'eyer,. and;,lias quite'evidently.trained "bffv"A. poor' gallop on Tiiesdny morning suggested that this might be what has happened to him.

Entering the straight* Prince Vnl appeared to cau.se some interference to Fitzquex, Eoyal Saxon* and . Pvoyal Finance, and-after the rnce A. E. Rllis was called on by the Judicial Committee for an ex-

planation. The committee decided that in view of the state of the going Ellis should be given the benefit of the doubt, and his explanation was. accepted.