MAKE UP'S SUCCESS

Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 119, 23 May 1933, Page 4

MAKE UPS SUCCESS

KING COUNTRY STEEPLES PROSPECT AT ELLERSLIE Make Up won the King Country Steeple-' chase, at Te Eapa last .Saturday by a. length,, but he could have won it by v dozen lengths.had .he been required. In,] refraining from asking too much of him his rider (I. Tucker) acted wisely, as the .| geldhig, had not been long back-and ,lins ! .« strenuous jumping campaign ahead ,of him. -From reports it looks as if lie might have repeated the effort yesterday had he not lost his rider.. . . ■■.... / Lucess - was a *firm favourite, for Saturday's race, but the ease with which Make Up accounted for him at the end of three miles suggested that lie can have little hope of turning the tables, in the Great! Northern 'Steeplechase/ with nearly a mile* farther to travel. ..The sole-factor-in favour of Lucess is that hd--is-in receipt Of.' a r liberal concession in' -weight | - which.means something at the end- of tho-i tiring EUerslie journey, Inlt .to-offset-this he is definitely a non-stayer. , ■-. There was no.pace on over the" early T>ai-t of Saturday's race, and this, induced Tucker to take Make, Up to. the. front. Up to this, point he, was not fencing, at. ail-, well, being inclined to rim down every '. obstacle. With the pace, on he. simply flew, his fences.: and gave, a brilliant exhibition, and he was being, cased up-.over the final bit, which enabled.Lucesa to finish within a length of hmi. It was a fine; Great. Northern, trial -and; \-will bring him more friends for the big event «:at EUerslie on June 5. He is also' in the big Hurdles, however, and this may complicate, the position, as it did last year, irhen he went after the double and was be&ten in the Hurdles by: his stablemate Landmark, subsequently failing on the two later days. He looks better than he did this time twelve months'ago and'he is tmch more experij'jced; -'■■■- . " . 1 It Tiill be reeaUeu that ■ iminediatply' «<ter .last year's Great Jforiliern.-, Meeting IMake'Up and Landmark-were sent across to "Victoria by their then owner, Mr. J. J. Corry, to contest the Victoria Grand Nationals and . the Austra'liarn. Steeples . and Hurdles, They failed, in that.mission,, but each won a race during the, . three months they were in '.Australia. Make Up made five appearances and won the Lindsay Gordon Steeples, .2 miles 2 ■ i'urlongs 8 chains, worth- s£3oo to the winner, at Moonee Valley1 on; July 30;' Landmark was also produced five times, and his money-winning, effort was in the Hurdle Race, 2 miles, worth £175 to the ■winner, at Williamstown ton August 27,, After this meeting T. E. George returned to the Dominion with his two jumping charges, who cfid not resume racing again till the recent Nelson and Marlborough meetings,. 3?he two horses are now,, owned by Mr. J. F. D. Cony, aiid they are still ■under George's care. .