WAS PRINCE LU GONE?

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 45, 21 August 1931, Page 4

WAS PRINCE LU GONE?

o whether Prince .Lv -would have won the rrand National Hurdles if he had not alien six furlongs -from .home. The affirmtive view was widely adopted when lie cored <so easily in the .Sydenhaui Hurdles n the final day. Those who have seen 'rince TLu in •■all .his important races this winter, still hold .that he was lread,y beaten in the National when he' atne to grief. .EChe ;S!ydenham. Hm tiles was run over a' wo .mile course, ;and Athat. Prince. air better than ithe -extra in the. fa.tio.nal.. 3Tothing -tackleE "him at anytage, anfl:he .wasfallowed to'have the runiitjg wholly ,as ?he wanted it. On the :twoiceaeions that ;this happened at 'the Great', forth.erri Meeting heiw.on. Qn the middle \aj «t jElWslie 3ligh "Pitch stuck 'to ;him,: ,-nd ;hc ,was evsutually !beaten rout of a ila?e,.-JHigh■Pitch 'toeing the. -winner. iR«■etting '.tp -ihe sGfandJS&tip'nal, Prince -Lv fas ..-taken on'by Amorist, just .after >.the tdd 'had passed' the-stands, -and -.for over ialf -a -mile -the-pair Ta.ced -together. Sriiice jU-.was'.v«ry Uncomfortable, and -although imorist.ityipea :out a fence before he did le had *been ■thorouclily unsettled and was onling back tto iOallamai-t when ihe, crashid. With a -stand -up Ire might not .even lave been placetl. The'sui;p.wsing 'part of. the Sydenham lurdles -on- the .final, day was .that.Prince jU was .(illow'ed to jhave just 6he free and :asy run1 out ,in front-that he wanted. \.t !least one- rider. should have.known >ptter, .antl-that was-A. G-. Campbell on: ligh Pitch.;