SLIPPING IN WEIGHTS

Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 142, 17 June 1932, Page 4

SLIPPING IN WEIGHTS

Southern handicappers«re beginning already to dvop; the last Grand National Steeplechase .winner, Snowfall, -in the weights for.v eteeplecliase , events, if ,the rareora Steeplechase,-; to'be run Pat .Washdyke to-nibrrbw> ibe .rtaWen as a criterion." By the time the National handicaps are due he may have done enough to deceive.the C.J.C. handicapper, as he 4 ld *w. elv. e months ago. Incidentally, A. JS. Ellis has accepted the mount on him again in the National.

■ For hia win in the last Grand National Steeplechase, in which he carried 9.3, 201b less than he bore into fourth place in the "race twfelv'e months earlier, Snowfall was;>sentMip.-251b;-t0,11.0, in the-Lincoln Steeples-on the final -day. of the meeting, finishing,third.-^: He reappeared in steeple entiries this winter to be placed on 12.1 iVthecOtago Steeplechase, but did not accepts "However, he ran in the Wingatui .Steeplechase on the second day with 12.1. For that unplaced.effort.he is down to t 11.13 on Saturday, whereas Deporfcmpntj, also unplaced and without a race Eincej: has been sent up-31b' to 9.13 The winner off the Wingatui Steeples, Nylotis, has gone up 131b to 10.7, the second ihoree, Umtali, 31b to 10.3," and the third horse, Matu, ; 21b i: to 11.0.' Nylotis and Matu both:started in the Dunedin Steeples oil the final, day of the Dunedin Meeting, finishing, second and third respectively in a fdur:horse field, Valves'being the winner.