ONE WAY TO

NZ Truth, Issue 1293, 18 September 1930, Page 11

ONE WAY TO

LOSE Throw 'Em Away STRONG CASES There were three very bad cases at Wanganui, No, not on the ice, but sheer, unadulterated poor horsemanship. THE first day -Les. Jarvis forgot to *■ have a look over his left shoulder and he allowed Pat. Hobson to get up and pinch the hurdles off Avro. But the gods were kind m this • , instance. Hobson could not make the weight and Avro was awarded v first place. Hobson and Mister- Gamp are companions m distress. Later m the day Autopay had the hack six won, even after stumbling on the turn, and his l-ider eased up a hundred . yards from home. Then on the outside from the clouds arrived Monalof and before McTavish could get Autopay going again the race was won and lost. It is hard to get. a little fellow with nine stone aboard m top gear once he has been eased up. Saturday, and the Eclipse Stakes witnessed as fine an example as one could- wish for of one rider giving another the "drop" on him. Toxeuma and Laughing Prince began, best, but whereas "Snow" Morris dropped m behind,' Bert Ellis allowed Toxeuma to go along. Joined by Simba.it was not so bad, but -vyhen he went away from the three-year-old and allowed Morris to follow him through, instead of forcing him to go round two, it was dreadful. Morris is one of the, most -vigorous riders m the country when it comes to a tight finish and -Mien on a sticker like Laughing Prince to give him the last run is fatal. So it proved. Came the challenge and though. Ellis rode des- , perately he could not hold the > Prince off and he went down by a nose. Had Bert been content to stay /with Simba it would have been all so different. v The success gave Laughing his fourth consecutive win m the Eclipse and his second lucky one. He should never have beaten Kiosk two years back, but he did. .