GAMENESS REWARDED

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 116, 12 November 1931, Page 10

GAMENESS REWARDED

ARROW LAD'S GOOD WIN

Arrow Lad has been showing consistent form in hia-races lately without taking any of the money, and his victory in the Jockey Club Handicap was not out of turn. It was a really -gallant piece of work, for he had to fight out the last two furlongs with Spoon, who ranged alongside him at the false rail, and after succumbing at the distance, Croupier did on Monday, came again in the last two or three strides.to nose h'er:put'o£ the honour on the. post. The time, lmin 37 l-ssee, shows what merit there was in the performance. Arrow Lad simply would not be beaten, and it was his wonderful determination that carried 'him through.

Full Feather, on the rail, did not go off with his field, Gustavo was squeezed out, and Ranelagh was slow to move. Spoon, Shatter, Arrow Lad, Mount Boa, and Red Heckle were most prominent early, and Shatter Tan to the lead at the six furlongs, where he was followed by Spoon, Mount Boa, Red Heckle, Adventus, and Admiral "Drake. Shatter and Arrow Lad (outside) came into the straight together just' ahead of Spoon and Mount Boa, with. Ranelagh showing up .on the outside, but Shatter dropped out at the false rail, where Spoon ranged on the outside of Arrotv Lad. Spoon forged to a head lead/ i but Arrow Lad fought desperately to retrieve the situation, and • Voitre got an extra punch out of him in the last few strides, which enabled him to pass the post a nose in front of Spoon. Two lengths back was Mount Boa, then came Gustavo, Red Heckle, Ranelagh, Full Feather, and Rational 11.

Red Heckle was a disappointing favourite. The race he had hi the Stewards' evidently found a weakness in him, for he was doing his best all the way. Gustavo, second in public esteem, lost his chance at the start, but was finishing on well. Spoon ran another great race, but found Arrow Lad a harder proposition than Croupier was on Monday. Arrow Lad (dropped 61b to 7.5 on the impost he was awarded, on. Monday, when he did not start) was very leniently treated in the weights, and he certainly was the handicapper's tip. With 8.0 he was third in the race last year. Mount' Boa, whom the public would not'have at all, went his best race at the meeting.