BALTIMORE HANDICAP.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 259, 2 November 1933, Page 8

BALTIMORE HANDICAP.

Australian Horse Successful in Very Close Finish.

POPULAR VICTORY,

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received 1 p.ui.) BALTIMORE, November 1. Tho Baltimore Handicap, of 60 dollars each, Avith 2500 dollars added, six furlongs, resulted: — WINOOKA, b h, syrs, by Windbag— Kanooka (Messrs. McDonald and Matthews), 8.8 —E. Britt 1 COLD STEP (Mr. Sheldon H. Fairbanks), 8.5 2 TAMBOUR (Mr. Preston M. Burch), 8.4 3 Winooka ran a good game race. He drew No. C position, next to the outside. Seven horses ran, Hope To Do being scratched at the last minute. Character broke from the outside, and Winooka broke with his field, but Britt did not rush him in the early part of the race, the horse being permitted to settle into his best stride before his jockey called on him for speed. Mid-way in the back stretch Winooka was in fourth position, at the back of Character, Gold Step, and Spring Steel. He was at least four lengths behind the leader. Britt asked for a little more speed from his horse just after passing the half-mile post, and Winooka began to pick up on the leaders. Unlike his previous race, when Britt steered his mount along the inner rail, Winooka was kept on the outside. He was forced to run round several horses on the turn and came very wide into the home stretch. This cost him a lot of ground. Winooka, when straightened up, responded willingly to hard urging, and, slowly wearing the leaders down, got up to win by a neck, with Tambour a head away. Winooka appeared to want to bore out in the run home. Britt was driving him hard near the end to hold off €fold Step and Tambour. Character, the early leader, did not stop until he reached the furlong post. Spring Steel, who won on Friday, loomed dangerously as the field swung into the straight, but he was unable to maintain the pace when driven hard over the last half furlong. Tambour came from a long way back. Winooka's victory netted the owners 2550 dollars. The Pimlico track was faster than it has been for many years. The fractional times are: Two furlongs, 235; four furlongs, 46 2-ss; six furlongs, 1.11 1-5 — 2-5s slower than the track record. It was a popular victory, and the crowd was brought to its feet by the close finish.