FROM LAST TO FIRST

Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 145, 21 June 1934, Page 8

FROM LAST TO FIRST

JOURNAL ADDS TO NUMBER

(From "Vedette.")

SYDNEY, June 11

The fashion of : horses_ finishing last in one race and winning. the next is being maintained, and in. events of some standing. At Raridwick Journal is-the latest performer. of this type. On the first day of.lhe Winter Meeting he finished at the tail of the field in a .mile and a quarter event, but five days later -in much stronger company he won the Winter Plate, one mile and five furlongs. ... This has ladded; to the'clamour for retrospective inquiries, ibut/the A.J.C. does not favour them._ The honorary officials consider- that the ordering of. retrospective inquiries is a vote of no-confidence in their own. officials. If the 'Isstriamed, the stipendiary stewards, are not capable of detecting a horse's being stopped they are not to be asked to play the after game. In Journal's case he was lucky to win, and moreover, from being iat a short price in the first race, he was at forlorn odds when he won. In the actual race, he cut the corner at.the.turh,!:wliere the leaders were right off the course: This enabled him to catch Mr/Kerry, who had taken charge at the furlong post, and to beat him home. - ,

forestry was again disappointing. He could not go in the. sticky conditions and was labouring a long way- from-Jiome: It is obvious that he requires a firm', track. ■; The; Chief Ruler mare Miss Nottava was'up in a handy position at the straight entrance, but just when it was expected that, slie would rattle home, she failed and finished weakly. \