SOME WEIGHT-CARRYING !

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 1, 1 July 1935, Page 6

SOME WEIGHT-CARRYING !

The performance of Greensea in winning the Second Brush Hurdle Race at Raridwick; last Saturday fortnight with 13.8 has led Australian sportsmen to compare him with Jack Rice, the outstanding jumper in Sydney of about 15 years ago. It was at Randwick in April, 1917, that Jack Rice finished second with 14.2 in the saddle to Quinridi, who had, 9.13, and. a three-length margin at the. judge. Jack Rice failed at Randwick with 13.12, a weight that Greensea .was. asked to carry over a mile and a half the following week, but which he did not tackle. pne of the heaviest weights carried successfully in a hurdle race in Melbourne was 13.13, by Betrayer, at Caulfield,. on .Caulfield Cup Day, 1905. Cory thus won a hurdle race at Flemington with 13.8,.and, like Jack Rice, ran second with 14.2. After- running second' in a' hurdle • race 7at Caulfield, Nilus came out later\inthe day in the ■steeplechase and finished second with: 14.10.. The .greatest .weight carried to victory in the Victorian Grand National Hurdle Race was 11.13, by Don Quixote, in 1884, but Redleap won, the Grand National ' Steeplechase in 1892 with 13.3. In tjie 1919-20, season Arlington, carried some, astonishing weights ori; the West Coast of the "Dominion. He won the Pacific Hurdles at .Westland with 11.0 ,and . scored in the Tagmah Hurdles the next day, with 12.1. Then followed a three-day meeting at Greymouth. He won ' the First Hurdles with 13.0, the Second Hurdles with 13.13. • • and. ran third in the Third Hurdles with 15.7, being only, two lengths and a half behind the winner. He was ridden in all those Yaces by W. J. Bowden.