FENCES AT FLEMINGTON
I'he New Zealand jockeys, I. Tucker *nd W. Rennie, Who had their first experience o£.riding over hurdles in. Victoria at Flemington, expressed astonishment at the small obstacles used (says •The Globe"). They declare that in New Zealand the obstacles used for hack hurdle races— the poorest class of jumping event in the Dominion —are bigger than those at Flem» ington, and that the jumps for ordinary hurdle events are nearly as big us the fences oh the Flemington ' steeplechase coarse. The horses they rode —Landmark and Make Up—are nsed to the big obefcacles, and they jumped so; high over those at Flemington' that they lost considerable' ground at , each obstacle, and therefore had no hope of keeping «p with the pace set by'the faster hurdlers.
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Evening Post, Volume CXIV, Issue 19, 22 July 1932, Page 4
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