SPRINT TO CADLAND

Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 63, 16 March 1931, Page 4

SPRINT TO CADLAND

wins "Like real champion

If any test was required to prove just how_good..Cadland..is bow, it .was provided" by "the Railway Handicap, for he won with a sustained finishing effort over the last couple of furlongs, and worried his opponents out of their places one by one till he had gained mastery some chains from the post. The colours of Royal Routine, True Shaft, Autopay, Arikiimi, and Tenterden were the first to be discernible, and as they came on to the course proper Arikinui had charge from Royal Routine, Autopay, True Shaft, Cadland, Tenterden, and Havering. Autopay raced past the leaders approaching the distance, but Cadland' had begun a devastating run down the outside of those ahead and nothing could withstand him. He gained the mastery, several strides off the post, and came on to beat Autopay by nearly a length, Havering being a couple of lengths back third, and True Shaft fourth, with Limerick alongside. Best of the others were Arikinui, Tenterden, Royal Routine, and White Fang. Cadland was another hot favourite to score, and his price was little better than evens'. He carries the T. A. Duncan^colours that Laughing Prince /bore ■ in- the Thompson Handicap, and the stable thus very nearly brought off the double event. Cadland was a hack at Christmas, but now he has earned the claim of being consid-, ered one of the best sprinters in the Dominion. Autopay, who usually gpes well at Trentham, lias-lost" none of his speed, and only an exceptional sprinter at his peak form was "able to'beat :hini. Havering will improve with the race, and: so will Limerick, whose performance" must have been very gratifying to his connections, for he-showed a lot of his former characteristic' vim hi his finishing effort. TrueoShaft made ■an :iuipressive showing for a recently promoted hack, but Royal Routine;:although he went a fair race, was not quite up to the company. Arikinui gave a. glimpse of returning form.