MISHAP TO MALAYAN

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 122, 19 November 1931, Page 15

MISHAP TO MALAYAN

HOW CONCENTRATE LOST

Among Trentham horses who ■will not be starting at Levin on Saturday is Malayan, -who knocked himself -while working and was an absenteo from the track this morning. All the Trentham horses who competed at the New Zealand Cup Meeting are now back. A. E. Browne has physicked Ephialtes, Michael Angelo, and Volga Boatman, and they have been turned out in the paddock for a week's spell. Ephialtes' Christmas programme has not yet been settled. . Cimiibue, looking very well, was out on the track this morning doing easy exercise. He demonstrated at Eieearton that he.has not lost his brilliance, and may win more good races before his career is over. In appearance he continues to improve and is undoubtedly now a very fit horse. Too .'much note should not be taken of his failures on the concluding, days in the South. The members of H. B. Lorigan's team that returned from Australia on Tuesday have been turned out for spells, which may not be long except in tho case of Concentrate. Lorigan makes further comment on how unlucky Concentrate was in. the Melbourne Cup. Although he was passing horses one by one from the halfmile on, he had not released his great run when the mishap came against him a furlong from home. At that point he had just cut down Carry On and was on the quarters of White Nose. Ho was holding on to the drop, and had the race well'in his hands. Then ho apparently got into a hole or on some other uneven ground, and, wrenching his leg, he had to let tho race slip from his grasp. A. Eeed did not have the chance to call on him for his final bid. M. M'Carten, who w.s on Carry On and just behind Concentrate at the time, explained afterwards what happened. Concentrate was going away from him when he appeared to falter, then rolled over on to his mount. He had thought Concentrate a certainty for the race a moment earlier, so easily was he going. Only great courage enabled him to persevere on his three legs to hold third money, which, incidentally, was more than the value of the winning share in the Now Zealand Cup. Those who know how phenomenal is Concentrate's run at the end of a race will realise with Lorigan what a good thing beaten he was. His run is not a long one, but he can sustain it for more than a furlong. . It is always coming, no matter whether the distance be a mile, two miles, or two miles and a quarter. Lorigan says that the report that he had begun his run half a mile from home is erroneous, for actually he .had not been.required to start it even when the accident occurred. He had passed tiring horses on his own, and Eeed was waiting with the drop on White Nose. His effort to tho point was a really brilliant one, for ho had been carried out approaching tho straight by Prince Dayton, and Eeed had to use all his wits to keep the field in on the rail.