HOT FAVOURITE FAILS

Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 65, 14 September 1933, Page 8

HOT FAVOURITE FAILS

FOREIGN QUEEN'S* SPRINT

■*'■■_ Foreign Queen, having her first race since her Kiccarton trip, on which she "tlid not do too well, showed all her characteristic speed and final brilliance to win ■>the Railway Handicap handsomely from the hot favourite, Diatomous. At the

straight entrance it looked any odds the -favourite, but he gave up without much seriously tackled by the mare. '"■■■Foreign (Jueen had another change of ijockeye, with S. Wilson, having his first "Hide on her. She 'proved very easy handling, haying the running meted out in. just the way she likes it. It was Wil-

tson's second, winning mount during the "".Diatomous revealed all bis exceptional ■iwo-year-old brilliance, quickly replacing *Nir Pombal in the lead, and soon having n break of two Jcugths over Foreign

Queen (rail) and Sir _ Pombul, with Fiji ,ATid Impasto together next. Diatomous ftem still well clear as they swung into the Vtraight, but he failed badly to respond Vhen required to withstand' Foreign bid, and, although he ran on when -passed, he was easily beaten to the poet by .half a length, a gap that Forcign'Queen <:ould undoubtedly have made much "wider. J.fc certainly does not look as if Diatomous will ever be more than a pure sprinter. , Sir Pombal, there all' the .way,: hung on to occupy third placing a length, and 7i. half back. Knollmere came home reso-

Jutely from the back to finish fourth, with iJSNfB Knave, who could not go the pace ,early, aleo running on well next. Imz 'pisto fu. disappointing; finishing last, Jbpt th« race should improre him. Fiji and Cadland were also in need of the run. lloyal Bengal was never dangerous.