WAIRARAPA MEETING

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 73, 28 March 1932, Page 4

WAIRARAPA MEETING

MAIN. RACE TO ARIKJRA

REMAINDER OUTCLASSED

(From "Rangatira.V)

.KjEee'ent- Wellington form pointed, very -definitely "to the topweight, Arikira, in the Handicap,- the main event at the Bating' Club's Autumn Meet."■.v'sfig on,; Saturday, and the race proved only i'-.^iog.'for^him. The rain that .fell ■ after .the sedorid event was a further factor in '"iys:^tour v 'Se gave A. E. Ellis his second : : in-succession,, and he was the third (••;' tdrse^..-in ;..i;hree* races to pay under even iaMeyi !'his;- price, however, beins better •■ than that paid by either of the two earher : win'neirs.- It would seem a "pity that he a .,ridssed more^important Easter acceptances. th -There: was no pace on at all for sis furlongs, and. Arikira and Malahat, who had .:been. chopped out at'the start, were..allow- [•. ed -Xp i run along behind the others.' Arikira >• '^as- after the leaders from the halfi'"milei''and';Tie managed to, get'up without ,r goiifg far off the fence. Chopin and Imateagirl led Arikira and Joie de Val into ,ithe:straight, then Arikira raced to the :>frpnt : 'with little apparent trouble,1 and. r-:jeanie» on- to beat* the, strongly-finishing ; . Malahat. by a good length;- The distance : Jnight-have well been extended .had the ■*. necessity, arisen. • ■ . ( , iHa}aihat:'was stili near the rear of the1 ;"■ 'field:ia.t .the'straight entrance, but finished with-a fast run along the outside and cut i.Joie: de- Val: out of second money by a . Jength. It.was surprising, after his recent ] :>uec.esses, on . the East ■ Coast, that he 1 should : haye.been allowed to go outsixth iifaypuritevat .»• better price for second '"■.Hnah-.'the 'winner: Joie de 'Val was not earlypaee,- but might fhave been ,second' had she been allowed . *;^o: run ;':along ' earlier.- Imateagirl,- the;;f6tirth: horse, didbest of the others. - Gr.een ■tpatcht and: Chopin, after beingy prominent liaiast:of the way, did not;come- on at the |- jetid j--. put:-the. race was not' fun to suit • them;. •■■■ Foghorn, ■ and. Stanchion were the Vlastto;finish.j ; '~■ . .;':v. v ■.-.-,