SCEATGHMEEE SCAR

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 123, 27 May 1935, Page 6

SCEATGHMEEE SCAR

AN UNPOPULAR VICTORY

dtrom "Vedette.!') \ SYDNEY, Slay 17.

Form reversals, or, what.have appeared: to be reversals, have raised the ire of liaudwick racegoers; several;, times lately. Two of. the most demonStrations have been over.the.wins; of- NpwvZealand horses in ■ Scratchmere ''.- Scar and; Silver Jubilee. Both .'were Vwell' beaten Vat Warwick li'arm-prior to winning;at Kandwick,, and both were, well backed at. Warwick Farm by their connections, who did riot profit. to anything like as great a degree at Raiidwick. ■ '-

At Kandwick last Saturday Scratchmere .Scar was at an outside price, but this did not prevent" his looking a winner at every point in the race. No'doubt' he was aided by the soft; track, being a true Hunting Song, and. also it iis very probable that the race he had at- Warwick Farm was of considerable benefit to him, for it was his first for nearly three months, further, as has been pointed out quite often, strange, iorses often do badly at. W afwick Fawn on their first appearance' there. ' In' the ' case of Scratenmere Scar,' the stewards ■ did not even bother to ask for any explanation, despite, the hullabaloo raised .by the Rand wick racegoers. ,■ if- '; -ii. .' '■ '.'■'.'.'.■■..' ■•• ■;•■

Silver Jubilee, tppweight • with 9 f o, could do no better than finish fourth in Tattersall.'s/.B'lying Handicap' on Saturday., J. Pike again had the mount, ' and did all he could, but "without avail. Silver! Jubilee-is ,'not a ( smart: bor«e early ,in a ■race, but after Pike Had had him .'right up at the turn he failed to come on. Leading 'places went to Buoyeo 6.8 and High Boy 7.0, while Celebrate 7.12 just cut Silver Jubilee out of third place. The prominence of the lightweights at the finish was explained by the baavy track after a downpour of rain overnight. ' •' ,; Greensea received rounds of applause when he won the hurdle race with 13.3. He gave a perfect exhibition of,jumping, whereas the second horse, Sixteen Annas, lost lengths by running: out at every fence. Greensea- hadSa fresh jockey in J.. Harris,: due to his regular pilot, E. .McMenamin, beink, under suspension for a month,: Harris has a record on-Green seaVof (two rides andtwb wink' 'V; ;:

Red Thespian was perhaps lucky to win the two-year-old handicap at TattersalTe Meeting, but for all that the Thespian geld-. mg was at a false double-figure price for I a .gelding who had previously won twice in three starts. .The favourite. Cascade, finished third under great difficulties. On his way to the post ne had collided with the running rail, throwing his rider, but after being inspected by the starter he was - ordered ' into line. How ever, he must ha\ c' loosened a plate during his escapade, for he ran most of the way with the plate twisted round. Under these circumstances he did remarkably to be only two and three-quarter lengths I away in third place. The runner-up was J. T. Jamieson's charge Terrapie, a handsome Magpie colt, who slipped about a lot in the race. The Paper Money 'colt Money Spi, trained by F. McGrath, was well backed in Red Thespian's race, but he did not ishow up until jthe finish, when he wae a fair fourth.

Rivalli's success in the Jamea Barnes Plate was another oopopplar victory, howls from the flatites greeting hie retnrn to scale. Probably punters were a tittle on edge, for it was one of Randwick's blackest dayE^every winner on the flat at double figures, and 'even the winner of the hnrdle race of 'four "rnnnera was thi^d ?h6ice. Anyway, "KivalH's reception was the reverse p£ e'heerjr,'bbut« 8t t «8 his form had already been the subject of, an inquiry the fetewards could do no more.. Rivaili, scored a typical victory, in front all the way. Braeburn ran hie best race for a long time, finishing fast into second place: > jamieson thought Persian had a, real j chanc* of completing a hat-trick, but a rise., to 8.10 and a mile and three-furlong journey exceeded \ bis capabilities. •' ,\ tl ' JMnce Pombal A reappeared at Rose* bery^on Wednesday, ">bnt the long straight there, does, not] his , r type, and 'be weakened, irifaKonrthlWace. L/--,^.*^^