AUTOPAY AND SENIOR

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 74, 25 September 1934, Page 6

AUTOPAY AND SENIOR

Two rather overdue successes, in New South Wales this spring came the way of the '■New-Zealand invaders at* the Hawkesbiiry Meeting last Saturday. Autopay; having his-second outing .on the. trip, won .the I/lying Handicap, worth £120 to the winner, under the Svelter weight ot 9.13 in lmiu 13% sec;' and/Senior, also hav-| ing his 'second start, gained his first Australian success in the mile highweight handicap, worth .£"BS to the winner. . .Autopay,,.; owned in ■ Wellington by the two well-known sportsmen Messrs-.-N. E. Aitk'eh'. arid Hv F. Wood, was" in great order when he left Trentham last month and his win came ns.no surprise. At his first start; in thaCamellia Stiikes'.at Rose-i hill, he " .was. "troublesome at ■ the: barrier 1 aridT;i6s.t:'alr'cha"nce: by,failing':to: begin. It is.■interesting to note'1 that three years ago,'after winning I the Camellia Stakes, he also scored in "the Hawkesbury Flying, under 9.6 in Imin 14sec, and those two races were-the prelude to his Epsom win. That year he''had. 8.6 as' a'four-year-old, in. tlie- Epsom.' ■ His weight next Saturday is 9.2, 41b less than he carried into fourth place after being- left two. years ago. \Seriior is flaunting the Desert Gold colours again in Australia after an absence of- many years. He is a fpur-year-old 'bay horse by Chief Ruler from.' the Fihlarid.imare First. Blow, hence he is a halfbrother to .Second Wind 'and to Gaeeony (sire, of last Saturday's juvenile winner atFoxton, Symcony). Mr. T,'H. Lowry sent'hini:.over to G. Price at Sydney, during the-" winter, but it wa^only a fortnijrhCago'tbat he had' his first, race N there, in- a'.'/nile welter at^...Rosebery,;. running mbcUrately.'r.but evidently improving',measurably ;'witK-the.: outing. -In -the Dominion i last season he was just beaten by Davolo .in,:the Dourq Cvp1, arid V.he won races at Hastings in the spring'and at Awapuni in the autumn. .