NORTH EASILY FIRST

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 30, 4 August 1931, Page 13

NORTH EASILY FIRST

_A survey of the results of the Grand National Steeplechase since it was first contested under that name in 1876 shows that hoi so? hailing fiom the North Island hold a much better winning record than horses trained in the South Island. In the '50 ' races decided the, North has won 35, including the last eleven, and the South only 21. Tho following are the respective lists:— North Island.—Maiißaohane, Chemist. Waterbury, Norton, Mutiny (twice), Lcwmter, Dummy, Blackberry, The Guard, Gobo, Haydn, Awiihuri,; lim|sl(illcn, Kclair, Eufus, N.idaddr, To Alii. Fiirltittu, Captain Xgatna, \Vmnui, Master Stiowaii, St. Klmn, Coalition (twice), Oakloißh (twice). Sturdeo, Tuki, refer Mdtnell, Beau Caviller, Wiltshire (twice), ami Aurora .Borculls South Island.—Kojnlty, Fakir, Jlonsetnin, Agent (thrice), Clarence, Katerfcldt, Koscliisko, Moody, Canard, Faugh-a^BallaKh, Daddy Loneless,' Freeman, Ahua, • Slow Tom, Phaetontls, Eilrus. Tim: Doolan, and Xoehella. Twelve of the South Wand's twenty-' ono successes were tho fiut dozen contests. Southern hoiscs have been victorious only six times in the last forty years, and not once in the last decade. When Tuki won, he was owned and trained in the North Island.