HUNTING GO ATONES
IVWCK DISTANCE .SUCCESS
:: 'illuntiug'.Go made.1 amends for his earhei; [.failures* at "-the.; meeting- by winning:, the; Otaio Elate, for which, with the services. •ojKL^J^Ellisi^h'e^Tvasi «ie i; placeyfavour-; iite^and;*;nePy a^well!^bacKed-./.to-,.wm as. :Seratchfnere Scar/: He1 add'(!d/still another 'sticCess .tb.-the'-'eiqelleht' record^ ofe his sire '.(Hunting. SpiigJ jtf-JthcgmeetingS/.; : ; , ;; !'■ I Hunting Go \\roti : like a ' stayer. , Jiartn'ciuake,'"Heatlier,.GlO)v; ) and; Scratchmere iScar'iwe' still- ahead of him at the ;straigfat:tentrance,vbut he quickly asserted I mastery^ OTer,4hese opponents and held off :a. late • claintVfrbm, Tout ?.-■ lev Monde' by a he' had ijhin fifth/pr^sathiVreseryingihimself/for; =the final couple; of .furlctßgii'- s ;■ . ; ',;!.- Tout le Monde'put, up: a'good; effort,-as: .he was absolutelast the greater part of the trip. He must liave been stillvthereabouts at the straight entrance, buthe then forced; I Ufa-way through.: along- the'inner -of the ileaders,''and lie failed only narrowly to: ■ eat'eh. the'winner'..' He is a very-.lazjr hbrse ; :wlib''-reo.uii'es;-fitrong riding, and it was, ;bnly:Vthe-vigpro;us:handling of A. IS. Elhs that:-got': him"''-up so 'near victory. "I ■ Scratchrnere,. Sqaft'.hadvthe 'run of the racev'pvjfe^tKe/'clQsing':l stages, deceiving a clear'passage through to, the leaders along' the rail oh the home turn, but he was unabfe-to :make full use of the opportunity. Earlier in the race, however, he appeared" to meet with some interference^ and this may have left him without rer. serve foe the finish, as his third placing was a "full two lengths away. ' ;:; ~ Earthquake,,. after,, setting the , pace, .weakened put:"of.'ithe-:-. money. Heather iSlcnr looked.;*: possibility at the top of 'tbe!;straight, I-but 1 failed over the final couple of furlongs. 'The others were never troublesome, both; Surigem and Sibella be-v ing'disappointing/, ■•"., .''■•.'•' '. LV
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 115, 12 November 1934, Page 6
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259HUNTING GO ATONES Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 115, 12 November 1934, Page 6
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