IMPRESSIVE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 43, 19 August 1930, Page 6

IMPRESSIVE

iGOBNEROFF'S FORM rMS.

EICCARTON

\llxperlence at jumping is required to *in an Important hurdle race, although in fcolated cases (such as that, of a natural Simper like Record Reign) horses have performed well over hurdles with little previous schooling. To win or run prominent in a steeplechase like the. Grand National at Riccarton. a runner must have a lot ot experience at hurdle racing, minor steeplechasing, or in the hunting field. Corneroff, who ran second to Aurora Boreahs m Ihe Grand National Steeplechase, had little of these very necessary experiences. Although Corueroff started his racing iareer in the spring of 1927, it was not till fest June that he contested a steeplechase. In that month Corneroff waa a runner in She Woodlands Hack Steeplechase at Hast&gs (unplaced) and the Petane Hack Steeplechase at Napier Park, which he iron. At Trentham last month Corneroff Ml in the Matai Hack Steeplechase, and An the second day o£ the meeting ran sec«id to Hymestrason in the Mariri Hack Steeplechase. That limited programme as a-'chaser constituted CornerofE's. public experience, .and his performance at Riccarton last Tuesday was a remarkably good one, $yen allowing that the class of the field ■^as much below that which usually contests the big cross-country event of the Canterbury Jockey Club. In the capable Sands of A. M'Donald considerable improvement may be expected, and next wintgr Corneroff will give "tone" to any race ie contests.