BOLTING HURDLER

Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 115, 12 November 1934, Page 6

BOLTING HURDLER

A WHANGAREI COMEDY

ROUND AND ROUND THE /JUMPS' i

(Special from "Early Bird ") Novembei 10 Ihe start of i the Jiurdle race at Whanguci todaj wab held" "up m t rather Tfenidikable fashion. On the'fitst ,day Aiibuin Koso, hawng her lnitnl^raoo o\er the stitU, Mas li\ely at tne bainci, and then liteidlly lUbhed at tUe hr«t obstacle and, hittiug^it heavily, thiew ter rider, who hit theground ten jird* away. Xo^ day Auburn Kose dived through the b«trier and bolted, D. Craddock hanng a bad tune ot it m a fruitless endeaAour to pull the hcn.se up. Auburn Rose took the bit in hei teeth and careened once lound o-\er the fouc hurdles at a fast gallop. She dived under the barrier again on coming- to it, and then did another round ot four hurdlee This she Tepeated once more at little more than half pace, and lefused to be pulled up. By this time her rider had become wery exhausted ]'or the fourth time Auburn Rose careered around the course, but at the final fence a'panel had been revmoved to allow the horie to run through without jumping ' ► * ■> < By this time a number of jockey* and tiiincis. had bpiead ticioes the track to stop the lumniv, but the mare meielv to^ed hci held m the air and charged stidight at them, a. m6\e \ihidi literally "brought down the house" In 'the meantime mother jockey had commandeered the hoise of the clerk of the course and ho cantci od alongside Annum Bone, 'grabbed the loins and biouiht the mare to a standstill just -nlim she vias about to 6et out on the filth round Tt A\as a Tidy tired hoise and rideL that leturned to the biidcage. Auburn Roso was withdrawn from tl»e race, but is the totilmtor had closed the investment on hoi amounting to £38, could not lie leturned Altogether Auburn Hope galloped ovei thiee md a half miles and jumped fifteen hurdles, the sixteenth being nulled out The hurdle rtc© wag delayed for^abwit a quartei of an hour, . and the lockev ( v, i^ tb™ ''exhauated to ride apim dunmr the if^emoon -Foitunateh^^Jjburn Rose w«s the outsider of the fieW#-;''7- ~ >"'■