HULA BELLE NEATLY

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 16, 20 January 1933, Page 4

HULA BELLE NEATLY

SOUTHERNERS'. HACK SIX

The Euapehu Hack Handicap found the Sojithern band triumphing over the rest of their Northern rivals, with victory going to the top-weight, Hula Belle, narrowly from Chief Light and Zeebrugge. It was a hard finish, in which L. J. Ellis had to pull on all his reserve to hold off the other pair. The three beat the rest of the field decisively.

The winner was always well placed hear the fence after having drawn the rail position. Wasteland, Solitaire 11, and Slippery were the first to show out, and they led over on to the course proper from Zeebrugge, Hula Belle, Navaho, and Acron, with Chief Light coming up along the outside.' At the false rail Ellis sent Hula Belle through the opening, and she raced to the lead at the distance, but she had to be riddeu hard'to beat Chief Light by a short bead, with Zeebrugge only a head further off third. Nebulae ran on into fourth place, arid was followed home by Slippery, Navaho, Solitaire 11, Grand Review, Kamal Pasha, and Acron. ■ ■ Hula Belle is a four-year-old mare by the Australian sire Beau Fils, and she is owned by Mr. R. M. Greenslade, who also has Tippling^racing at the meeting. She had previously wan three'races this season, all in open sprints at not much less than the weight she had among the hacks ■yesterday, so it was not surprising to find her being \sent out-third favourite on both machines' and bringing off the victory. The win finally removes her from hack class. ' Chief Light; who won. at Dunedin during the holidays, finished on well, and had the winner' extended to beat .him. He is one of Mr. W. T. Hazlett's horses. Zeebrugge, haying his'first race fo» over twelve months, also* went excellently] being in the leading division all the way, and if he goes on right now it should not be long before he adds to his winning record. ■ Nebulae came from well back into his fourth placing. Slippery, Navaho, and Solitaire II had every chance. .Grand Review and Kamal Pasha were doing their best work at the end. Wasteland petered out before doing five of the six furlongs, and Idolise, a well-backed candidate, was never sighted. Prior to the race Shelter, the haltsister to Shatter, bolted, and she was not pulled up till she had run seven furlongs. The field waited for her to go i back to the barrier, and, after another delay through Zeebrugge and Slippery brealcing through. the. tapes, they were eventually dispatched nearly half an hour after scheduled time.