CHAPTER OF MISHAPS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 34, 9 August 1933, Page 4

CHAPTER OF MISHAPS

ALL EXCEPT TWO BLUNDER

The Enfield Steeplechase was a. real chapter of accidents, eleven horses starting and only two completing without mishap. The winner turned up in Kapuna, who was second selection both ways with betters. He took the lead after crossing the Kennels, and he was not extended to beat Dan Russell by three lengths. It was only the second start that he has had since a. long spell, but with so _ many casualties it was not possible to gain any line through the performance. Dan Russell set the pace early. He was first over the first fence, and led over the stands double (the next fences) from Speakeasy, Tunbridge, High Pitch, Kaokaoroa, Carinthia, Quinopal, and Jen, wtih Sir Richard a long way in the rear. He was well beaten half a mile from home, but the accidents enabled him to gain second, money, as near the winner as sufferance allowed. The first horse to fall was Nine o£ Spades at the first of the stands double. At Cutts's, the next fence, Speakeasy crashed and brought Tunbridge down. High Pitch (fell)j Kaokaoroa (ran off), and Sir Richard (ran off) failed to negotiate the Kennels double, and Jen somersaulted at the sod wall another fence on. Quinopal, going well, ran off at the next fence (the brush at the top of the straight), crashing through the inside wing, and Carinthia also quitted company with his rider here. Kaokaoroa's rider, having observed the mishaps, put his horse over the final brush and his number was hoisted third. Sir Richard, however, went-1 back to the Kennels and did the job .properly, and an inquiry afterwards by the stewards deprived Kaokaoroa of third place and dividend and awarded them to Sir Richard. At the meeting of the Judicial Stewards Ci. Thomson, the rider of Kaokaoroa, was asked to explain why he did not take his horse back and recommence from the point where the horse missed. After hearing Thomson's explanation the stewards decided to reprimand him for continuing the race with fences missed en