RACING AT PAHIATUA

Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 85, 10 April 1935, Page 8

RACING AT PAHIATUA

-CUDDLE'S EASY CUP WIN

MARE AT HER BEST FORM

~ r, r .. (Special from "Ranflatira.") -;:-': . PALMERSTON N., This Day. .c.-.'-It was a beautiful exhibition of smooth .jia]]o.ping that Cuddle gave in winning the IT&biatua. Cup, the principal event on the ■'tfrfeiiing. day of the Pahiatua Racing Club's '■A'ffiiual Meeting yesterday, especially when •she'was stretched out over the last two .'-iWlongs, the only portion of the trip yin "KJiich she was seriously extended. She ■stripped looking a picture of fitness, a • much better mare than she was. at /Tjrentham three weeks ago, and on yester.'day.'s effort she will have to be taken wl'lto" earnest account for her C.J.C. Great "Autumn engagement at Eastcv, for pro'^iiihitive weights may now compel her to ■''finssby Fcilding and Tauherenikau. Under •'.the' southern conditions she incurs no penalty for yesterday's win. After the race the canteen of cutlery attached to the 'prize was presented to *.t!tlrldle's lessee-trainer, C. J. Stowe, by the -•"dub's-president, Mr. D. Kelly, who congratulated Stowe on the splendid eon,djj,jon in which he had produced the mare. -in -^ eulogistic speech he.referred to the 'Jact,,that Oratrix had preceded her New , Zealand. Cup victory with success in the '.Paniatua Cup, and he believed that ■VCwMle was just the type of mare who ••-bright follow in Oratrix's steps. "-:feiddle was handled in a masterly way by "Key ■'Heed, who, it isannounced, will now •ride-her in the Great Autumn. She was. ,Js£en to break away early, but.Reed had /ihfil' .under control within a- furlong, and '.r'lVcKlield her behind Bold Jim and La for six furlongs, galloping very .easily. At that stage Emin&nt was racing ' &?6'm the rear to the front within a- fur■'■'Jgn^,- and at the three furlongs-Reed '•iSoved his mount out to pass'the leaders. '-OiiCd properly landed in the straight, % »<3iWldle, with little urging beyond being .vaJJewed her head, swept to., the1 front, .) mid. she galloped away from her opposition •rtp--score very attractively by three lengths from Walton Park and Eminent, ,wliq were separated only by a head. /•'Walton Park, who still looks rather fb'ig,'though his breed race best this.way, j-; w/is last into the straight, but he ran on *'fi*<>llj as he usually does, and managed to set up for tho other dividend, nearly as good as that paid by the winner, who was .iat.very hot favourite. Eminent did not Appear handled to the best advantage by ~ i-% $•■ Broughton, who had made the trip Mcl'owu from Darcaville by car during the /'jrteyioiis night, but Broughton may have been worried by the canter pace that was -Itcfng set by Bold Jim, realising that it n was':playing into the topweights hands. •■Bold Jim, after pulling hard in frout for isUiifurlongs, began to tiro, and ho finished .- a:Boor fourth three lengths, away, just in .fc<>nt of La Poupee, wlio also tired, and -.-^wtigern, whoso only, flash of speed was running up to Cuddle near thp six V furlongs post. ' . "■■■"Although Cuddle may now be regarded a»« certain starter for the Great Autumn, .there is a doubt about her 'contesting the ■^Cire'at Easter, for Reed, though available, ;Tias not been requisitioned for her 'in7the r.ShcnHer race. It is still possible that she "'wlH'have a race in the Korth Island on o.i Easter Saturday, probably depending /.^mainly on, what weights she receives.