HAS A SECOND RUN

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

HAS A SECOND RUN

AND WINS WITH EASE

It is not often that horses start twice on the same day at metropolitan meetings, bul the class in.the. Petone Haudicap was poor and the W'ashdyke trainer, P. T. Hogau, asked Water Power to do the unusual. And she rose to the occasion by putting her whole heart into her work and rewarding her party with an unexpectedly .'. large dividend, which was the more surprising in that she had been near favourite at her two .other starts at the meeting. It-was the second success during thii day for Ilogan, auU it was quite ;i family affair, us liogan both owns and trains the mare, and she was ridden by his son, W. Hogan, who had earlier scored on his father's other charge, Town.Major.

; The field was dispatched in liiie, and the;first.to show out were Trojan Melody, False .Scent, Awamutu, Miss Chatter, Wild Country, and Winsome Hind. Crossing over ; ou to the course proper, False Scent was just in .front of. Awamutu and Trojan Melody, with Wild Country and Miss Chatter handy, und Water Power coming fast on .the., outside. The leaders were weakening beyond the false rail, and -Wild Country :'had .''their measure at the':'distance; :■ but- '■ Water Power had gathered up' her full momentum by this ■time-'and she finished- like an arrow 'well out>;on the course to .cut down the .leader .'and beat,her home going away by a length- and a half. "Trojan Melody ploclded on .into third, place six; lengths::*back,^.and-v-four lengths; behind, him was: the 'fourth.hbrse, Miss •.Chatter;.: Then followed False Scent, Baskier, rrripos,,Mborbird ) A:Winsome Hind, ahdrAwamutu. - : 'V.; -:..:;-: ,V:"- '■'i'X'.-it'-n'l/- ---; ■■Winsome .'Hind was a disappointing.: first favourite, and the second favourite, Moorbird, having, only" her.l second, start in a race,; waa; nearly as bad a' failure. > Both were expected to go well1 on the heavy track,' but neither, managed to handle-it; Treiitham mud is .apparently! different from the kind; generally obtaining in the South. .Wild Country-ran. a similar-race >to what she did on Saturday and, againstrlthe weaker opposition' improved a' place.- Trojan '--Melody was third- because the others. Were too expended to deprive him.of it.'