MELBOURNE CUP JOCKEY
N. A. EASTWOOD BACK IN CHRISTCHURCH “The Melbourne Cup this year was too slow for My Hero,” said N. A. Eastwood, who rode My Hero in the Cup, when he arrived at Christchurch by Skymaster yesterday. "The field cantered to the seven furlongs, but they certainly moved from there. I knew that My Hero would be well up at the finish, but it takes a very good horse to win carrying 9 stone. My Hero had not won a two mile race.” Eastwood said he did not expect Wodalla to win. Hydrogen was the horse he thought would be most difficult to beat. "I did not see where Wodalla came from for I was working hard at that part of the race.”
Eastwood said he did not have. to do any wasting or dieting, because his weignt was only sst 101 b. When he rode his first winner in a hack race at Ashburton six years ago he was only 4st 81b, and his gear weighed 4st 61b to bring the weight to the required 9st—the same weight that My Hero carried in the Melbourne Cup. Eastwood, who will be riding in his second two-mile race in one week when he rides Tyro in the New Zealand Cup today, said he would be returning to Australia next May for a -holiday.
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Press, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 27191, 7 November 1953, Page 4
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